Tuesday, 24 February 1829: 'Went to breakfast with Mr. Drummond Hay, where we [Scott and daughter Anne, with his niece Anne] again met Colonel and Mrs. Blair with Thomas Thompson. We lookd over some most beautiful drawings which Mrs. Blair had made in different parts of India exhibiting a species of architecture so gorgeous and on a scale so extensive as to put to shame the magnificence of Europe [...] Mrs. Blair is full of enthusiasm. She told me that when she workd with her pencil she was glad to have some one read to her as a sort of sedative, otherwise her excitement made her tremble and burst out a crying.'