Old Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Old Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland, Vol. 2

The arbiters immediately proceeded to the delicate investigation touching those anonymous letters, which had produced such consternation, and were fraught with so much mischief to many of the most esteemed families in the city and neighbourhood, leading some of them to regard each other almost as demons in human form.

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Excerpt from Old Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland, Vol. 2

Mr. Oswald selected, as his referee, Mr. Charles Stirling of Cadder, brother of Mr. Stirling of Keir, the father of the present esteemed M.P. for Perthshire, and chief partner of the then great house of Stirling, Gordon Co., of this city. Mr. Watson selected, as his referee, Mr. Chas. M'Intosh of Dunchattan, father-in-law of the then Mr. Horrocks of Tillichewan Castle (now the property of the esteemed Mr. Campbell of Tillichewan, whose amiable father we shall surely come to notice by-and-bye, if we are spared), and next, perhaps, to the late Mr. Charles Tennant of St. Rollox, Mr. M'Intosh was one of the greatest chemists of the age.

None more honourable - none, apparently, more sagacious - none with a loftier sense of what was supposed to be due between one gentleman and another, than these two referees we have thus described. Mr. Robt. Aitken, of the Bank of Scotland, then in Miller Street - father of the present Mr. Robt. Aitken of Messrs.

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