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Anne Grant, nee MacVicar, often styled as Mrs Anne Grant of Laggan, (1755-1838) was a Scottish author and poet. Born in Glasgow, she spent her first 18 months residing in the mountain home of her maternal grandparents and in 1758 travelled to the US with her mother to join her father who was serving with the military. Here she encountered garrison life and later, after her parents had made the acquaintance of Madame Margarita Schuyler (1701-82) who came from a prominent American family of Dutch ancestry, much of her time was spent in Albany with Mme Schuyler where she was introduced to literature, given lessons in geography and acquired other knowledge. In 1768 her father gave up the land he had purchased in America, which was later lost, and returned to Scotland with his family, settling in Fort Angus, Inverness. Here Anne met the Fort's chaplain, James Grant, who took over the living at nearby Laggan and the couple were married in 1779. They spent 22 years at Laggan and had 12 children, only one of whom outlived his mother. After Rev. Grant died in 1801, Anne took in young boys as boarders to help support her family and was later encouraged to collect and publish the letters she had written to friends in her earlier years. Letters from the Mountains was published in 1806, followed by this work in 1808 which gives an acount of her time with Mme Schuyler and her observations of America. Reprinted from the edition of 1836.