| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from William R. Smith [Professor William Robertson Smith, 1846 - 1894, Hebraicist], Edinburgh, 'I fear you have quite exaggerated views about Cambridge Professorships. Mine like many others is more of an honour than a livelihood - Duties one public lecture a year - pay £50 a year', hoping to teach to make a living, but will stay for the meantime in Edinburgh, thanks for card, visit to Aberdeen but staying with [John Forbes] White, remark about Gibson becoming a proper bureaucrat, 3 January 1883 |