The Hon. A. Erskine

In J. Reed's Copy of *Boswell's and Hon. A. Erskine's Correspondence*, 12mo. 1763, was the following note in Reed's autograph:— "The Hon. A. Erskine was fourth son of the fifth Earl of Kelley. Mr. Boswell told me the 30th of May, 1794, that A.E., having spent all his property, in a fit of despair threw himself from a rock into the sea last winter, and was drowned. His body was found five days after, when it appeared it was a deliberate act, as he had filled his pockets with stones."