On July 2, 1836, I find it recorded that he went with a party to hear Dr.Chalmers at the Dean Church, and returned all in great delight.

He made a long journey that year to hear the great organ at Birmingham, and came home by many cathedrals, and yet "glad to get home." In 1838 he notes, after a Highland journey, the "Synod was this year for altering the canons," He notes a "white-stone visit to the Stranges, Ross-end Castle, with the Bells.

Alas! how many things and people are gone." In 1839 "Lady Dalhousie, my admired friend, came to stay with us.

She came January 19, and on the 22d died in the drawing-room in an instant! It was an awful visitation, and never to be forgotten." The following letter, written immediately after the calamity, is from the Marquis of Dalhousie, from various circumstances an object of great affection to the Dean, who consented to take charge of his daughters when he went as Governor-General to India, bestowing on them the care and anxious watchfulness which the young ladies returned with hearty affection:-- The MARQUIS OF DALHOUSIE to DEAN RAMSAY.
Dalhousie Castle, 25th January 1839.
My dear Mr.Ramsay--I have sent John in, partly because I am anxious that you should let me know how Mrs.Ramsay is to-day, and partly because I cannot rest till another evening without endeavouring to express to you some portion of the very, very deep gratitude which I feel for all your kindness--for the kindness of your every act and word, and--I am just as confident--of your every thought towards us all in this sad time.

_God knows how truly I feel it_: and with that one expression I stop; for it makes me sick to think how slow and how coldly words come to clothe the feeling which I wish to convey to you.