Using the pseudonym Christopher Roberts or Robarts, Hugh Seton of Touch travelled widely in the East and places visited include Alexandria, Cairo, Mocha, Massowa, Hodeida, Bombay, Poona and Seringapatam. The correspondence, mainly with his son Archibald in India, provides a detailed picture of Hugh Seton's bohemian life style, his imprisonment in Hodeida for assault and impersonating a doctor (folios 3-15), which led to his three hundred mile walk from Poona to Chittledroog to seek redress from Lord Cornwallis (folios 33-34) and his involvement in the fighting against Tippoo Sahib at Seringapatam in 1793 (folios 37-40). These letters reveal him in his later years as an eccentric, compulsive traveller whose wanderings only ceased on his death in 1795.