| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from A.N. [Nicolson?], Kirkcudbright, regretting that he cannot get to Aberdeen before the spring vacation, and will therefore probably miss a lecture course, he will be busy at Christmas preparing his lectures on Skye to the 'Phil. Inst.', and the short breaks he has in between are devoted to the Gaelic Bible Revision Committee, Reid, concert, and Royal Scottish Academy, but he could give a lecture after the end of March, remark concerning their friend big John and the 'Conservative groundlings of Aberdeen' - 'What a sell for them the Egyptian success! Tel-el-Kabir was a victory over Lord Salisbury as well as over Araby!', he has been obliged to add some verses to 'Agus O Mhorag' and will send them on, 11 October 1882. List of lecture topics attached, mostly historical. |