Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence

• Reference:GB 254 MS 102/12/15
• Dates of Creation:1862
• Physical Description:
  1 bundle

• Scope and Content

  Correspondence: 1862. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, general and family affairs. Correspondents and contents include: Robert Saunders, Annfield Road, [Dundee] (Thanks PC for gifts to his family); James Spence, H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth (mentions Drummond Carmichael’s health and other family affairs; responds to PC’s request for his help to get A. Warden a position in Mr Penn’s drawing office; mentions Mrs Baxter holding a ‘grievance’ against Spence in connection with her dead son); Thomas Drummond, Colombo Kandy (discusses fibres); Rev. Noble Shepherd (relates to Independent Chapel); J. C. Cruickshank, Southampton [PC’s Nephew] (asks PC if he could use his influence to help him become an engineer); James Carmichael, À Ailly-sur-Somme, France and St. Martins Le grand, London(mentions forthcoming trip to Scotland; funeral of William Baxter; death of Mrs [Mary] Kidd); John Leslie, London (relates to order for stereoscopic slides); Chris Kerr, Dundee (relates to case of Mrs Mary Campbell with reply from PC); Alfred Bannister (offers PC honorary membership of the New Park Cricketers); Mrs McRuvie, Elie (agrees to let PC her house for a month); D. Bruce Peebles, Easter Road, Edinburgh and Abbey Mount Works, Edinburgh (letters mainly discuss business and technical matters. Other subjects include: regret at being unable to spend a few days with PC at Elie; Peebles agreement with Mr Fullerton for a share in his business and draft reply from PC; death of PC’s sister); A. B. Spence, Dundee (informs PC of availability of drawings by Erskine Nicol); Drummond and William Carmichael [PC’s sons] (update their father on events in Elie) ‘Mamma’, Rockville Villa (mentions death of a child); Charles Mackie, Green Hill, Morningside, Edinburgh (thanks PC for his kindness, mentions his health problems and discusses PCs father and father-in-law; describes state of Cotton Industry in Glasgow); W. E. Baxter (Invites PC to dine with him and Mr Cobden); Andrew Kidd, Meadowside Dundee (relates to building work); Fred Smith, Halifax (relates story of Cinderella); George Carmichael, Ward Foundry, Dundee (requests money PC owes him); Alec Marfies, St. Peter’s Street, Dundee (gives notice of his intention to give up tutoring PC’s sons); A Fullerton, Abbey Mount Works, Edinburgh (discusses business matters); D. Cruickshank, Southampton (refers to the death of ‘our dear sister’) .(102 items).

• Access Information

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• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, April 2011

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• Accruals

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• Additional Information

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