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  <dc:title>Aberdeen Female Orphan Asylum: Bundle of Receipts for Entertainments Relating to James Calder (father of Mary Elmslie)</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Envelope containing: 
List of gentlemen present with James Calder and participating in a wager of a tappit hen and supper, to be paid by the last of them to marry to the others, within three weeks of the last marriage; 

Bill from George Moir, Old Ship Tavern, Shiprow, Aberdeen, to James Calder, for oporto [port], zerry [sherry], porter, brandy, small beer and dinner, 10 February 1792; 

List of 42 gentlemen who dined with James Calder at Gordon's New Inn, along with their trade or profession and some pencil notes of their parishes, 5 November 1795; 

Bill from William Gordon, New Inn, Aberdeen, to James Calder, for entertainment, port, sherry, claret, porter and beer, brandy, almonds and raisins, and broken glass, consumed 5 November 1795, written 30 November 1795. 

Apparently the papers were referred to in Mr. John Smith's brief memoir of Mrs. Elmslie dated 1884 (see AET/AFOA/9/3)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1792 - 1795</dc:date>
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