Letter dated 19th October 1816, sent from Reverend Stewart of Dingwall to Reverend Dickenson
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Handwritten letter dated 19th October 1816, sent from Reverend Stewart of Dingwall (writing from 6 Argyle Street, Glasgow) to Reverend Dickenson. Within the letter:
[ink very faded and letter difficult to read]
- Thanks to Dickenson for his letter from Cheshire, which was welcome to Stewart in his “chamber of illness” in Glasgow
- He’s had a visit from Mr Brodie, aged 72, who is very lively despite deafness and other ills. His son acts as errand runner for him. He had been keen to hear Dr Chambers on the Sabbath who preached extempore. Mr Brodie has a son who is a school teacher in Aloa with whom he would stay for a few days, and hopes to come again another year. He has news of Helen Stewart, once a Sabbath Schalom and now in constant pain with “great sufferings in her mind” some of the time.
- Brodie had not visited for a year or so, and had not been seen by Sarah but hoped to do so on way home.
- Passes on a little news of Miss Millar, now Mrs Lawson, and Mrs Ferguson, who has her family around her again.
- He usually goes to a meeting on Thursdays at which Mr Carmichael, a Gaelic Minister, gave a lecture on the Westminster Assembly’s Catechism.
- He had a party to tea including the Chaplain to [?], and Captain Gordon wanting to improve his mind, and attends a teacher of Latin and Greek with whom Stewart’s nephew also studies, and have become friends. The Captain talks of sailors becoming “hourly religious” and is in contact with Dr Balfour and Dr Chalmers. He [either Captain Gordon or Stewart] also seems to have contacts with officers in the Russian Navy via Sultan Hala vny [?] who got leave from Emperor Alexander to come to Britain to acquire more knowledge. Dr Buchanan took him in.
- He’s been in touch with William Wallce and then sends greetings to end the letter.
