Margaret Tudor

"It is now more than a month since our captivity began, and there seems scant likelihood that it will come to a speedy close, -altho', being in good health myself, and of an age when hope dies slowly, I despair not of recovering both liberty and friends. Yet, in the event of our further detention, of sickness or any other evil that may befall me-and there is one threatening-I write these pages of true history, praying that they may some time reach the hand of my guardian and uncle, Dr. William S