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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Organisation |
NAS |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
GD170/1062 |
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Title |
Letter from Alexander Campbell, advocate, later of Barcaldine, to Glenure, his father |
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Dates |
1761-1783 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Description |
n.d. (1763.)
One letter containing an account of his expenses while at Glasgow University, with an answer from his father, complaining of his son's extravagence. 'You mention John Stewart's expence a very extraordinary comparition. You have spent this season whither in washing or dressing it matters not, more money than his father's stipend for a haill year and if his son hase spent as much as you in every other article (bording excepted) as you I would gladly know what the father and a nomerous family are to subsist upon. I think it will take both logick and mathematicks to find a fund for them'.
1777, January 27. Conistone.
Announces that the Lorn Furnace Company intends to make a survey of all Glenure's woods with a view to buying the whole.
1777, March 31. London.
Assures his father that the reason he came to London was to visit the dentist; gives details.
1777, May 21. London.
'Only figure to yourself the mortification I must have felt on so critical an occasion to find every tooth in my head ready to drop out of it without any previous symptom of pain or discolour to warn me of my approaching danger until it was quite too late and to crown the whole but for powder and pomatum I am almost as bald as a haggess'.
1783, October 17.
Re straightening marches between Glenure and Gleneagles, disputed point being the Roman Camp. With a sketch. |
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Level |
File |
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Extent |
80 letters and some enclosures |
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