| Description | 1/6/1899-31/8/1899
• Jane Barnett. Teacher, Skene Street School. 22 August 1899. Request for a transfer to a school nearer to her home address of 85 Irvine Place.
• Jane Barnett. Teacher, Skene Street School. 22 August 1899. Request for a transfer to a school nearer to her home address of 85 Irvine Place.
• J. Campbell. Head Teacher. Walker Road Public School. 5 June1899. A letter to the School Board asking for help as attendance had gone from 1100 to 1196 and the Infant Department was “very much congested.”
• J. N. Carmichael. Teacher, Grammar School. 2 June 1899. Letter to the School Board requesting permission to train the boys attending his workshop to cut models for exhibition in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Paris. If permission was granted special timber was requested.
• Cecilia Chalmers. Teacher, Broomhill School. 29 May 1899. Letter to the School Board requesting a transfer to Walker Road School as Ms Chalmers had moved from 269 Great Western Road to live with her father at Craigies Law, Nigg.
• Alexander L. Dunbar. [Position not stated] 29 August 1899. Meeting held with Mr Dunbar, Mr John Spark and Mr William Stewart at Causewayend School to discuss Manual Handling instruction timetable across several schools. Details and proposals included in the letter.
• William Hendry. Head Teacher, Causewayend School Evening School. 25 August 1899. Detailed list of suggested teachers for various subjects for upcoming session.
• D. B. Lothian. Head Teacher, King Street Evening School. 28 August 1899. Letter to the School Board with a list of recommended teachers and the subject each is recommended to teach.
• James Moir. Head Teacher of the Grammar School 1881-1893. Writing from The Ash, Hamilton Place, Aberdeen. 20 August 1899. Letter to the School Board to advise due to ill health and deteriorating eyesight he would not be able to resume duties.
James Moir. Head Teacher of the Grammar School 1881-1893. Invercauld Arms Hotel. 24 August 1899. Letter to the School Board looking for financial support following “serious calamity” and citing his 39 years of teaching.
James Moir, Junior. The Ash, Hamilton Place, Aberdeen. 24 August 1899. Letter to the School Board advising that his father, James Moir, would not be able to meet with them as he had met with a very serious accident the details of which had been in the newspaper.
• John H. Mennie. 17 Rosemount Viaduct. 17 August 1899. Letter to the School Board offering his services as a teacher for Evening School work. Mr Mennie gives details of his education and experience.
• A. Cosmo Mitchell. Teacher of Dancing to Aberdeen School Board. 22 June 1899. Letter to the School Board with the detailed expenditure incurred with the rehearsal in the Music Hall by the dancing classes of Ashley Road School.
• John McKenzie. Secretary Aberdeen Head Teachers’ Association. 5 June 1899. A printed letter asking for a review of Head Teachers’ salaries. The letter includes a table comparing salaries in Glasgow and Edinburgh to those of Aberdeen.
• John A. McHardy. Head Teacher, Woodside Public School. 30 & 31 August 1899. A letter to the School Board as Mr Hardy was not happy that currently, at the end of the month, the janitor went around the staff “with sovereigns in one pocket, half sovereigns in another, £5 notes in another,” handing out salaries. Mr McHardy suggested instead the Board provide him with a list on the penultimate day of the month and he would put the appropriate amount in an envelope for each teacher.
• Alexander M. Robb. 22 August 1899. Letter to the School Board providing testimonials to accompany his earlier application for a teaching position.
• H. F. Morland Simpson. Head Teacher, Aberdeen Grammar School. 1 May 1899 & 3 June 1899. Letters to the School Board requesting the proposed statue of Lord Byron be positioned in the Grammar School grounds.
• H. F. Morland Simpson. Head Teacher, Aberdeen Grammar School. 12 June 1899. Rector’s Sixth Annual Report to the School Board. The report includes the names and gives the individual progress of all 40 of the Free Scholars.
• Mrs Isabella Skea. Head Teacher, St Paul Street Public School. 20 August 1899. Letter to the School Board in response to a letter of complaint to the School Board by a Mr Keir on behalf of an anonymous member of the school’s teaching staff.
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