She, or perhaps Princess Elizabeth herself, kept an account of expenses for clothing, jewels, gifts, and writing equipment written in Scots language while travelling from Scotland in italic handwriting.
[6] On 11 December 1605 (after the Gunpowder plot) King James wrote to her father that her behaviour was satisfactory, but she would not be allowed home or given "room" - employment at that time.
[7] However Rowland Whyte described "Lady Levingston" dancing with others at Hampton Court in October 1606, when the queen entertained the French ambassador the Count de Vaudemont.
She wrote to husband in November 1612, hoping that Anne of Denmark and the king's favourite, Lord Rochester, would help him (in his struggle to secure his earldom).
In this letter William Seton makes it clear that Anne of Denmark had promoted the marriage of her lady in waiting and the elevation of her husband to the peerage.
[12] Later letters from Jean or Jane Drummond, who became the Countess of Roxburghe, show how Anne Livingstone maintained contact with the court and queen.
Drummond wrote in March 1613 that King James had not yet made any pronouncement on the question of the Eglinton earldom before going to Newmarket after the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate.
[14] A letter from Jean Ruthven at Whitehall describes purchases for Anne Livingstone, who wanted a "resting chair" like Jane Drummond's, a lantern, a piccadill, and lace in the latest fashion.
[15] Anne Livingstone shared news of the court from John Murray of the bedchamber and his wife Elizabeth Schaw, especially about the Earl of Somerset and Henry Gibb.
[22] Robert Wodrow recorded a story told by his father that Anne, her sister Margaret Countess of Wigtown, and the poet Lady Culross (Elizabeth Melville), and other women had welcomed Dickson with enthusiasm at Eglinton Castle.
A distant kinsman, the kirk minister John Livingstone, described her character, piety, and regard for truth, "although bred at court".
[36] The Fitzwilliam miniature case has two monograms, one set with diamonds and the other in enamel, with the closed "S", the "s fermé" or "fermesse",[37] a symbol used in correspondence of the period as a mark of affection.