Letter from S.R. Crockett to Malcolm Harper

Letter from S.R. Crockett to Malcolm Harper

LETTER

S.R. Crockett

Thanks Harper for delicate handling of sensitive matters especially mother's deception; typewriter broken; suggests tempering Duncan Robertson (Seaton Delaval master who welted students); requests omitting Sir Herbert material; seeks first Stickit Minister review by Robertson Nicoll (British Weekly March/April 1893); will collect photographs and collegiate memories; notes travels intimately linked with women in youth - not for publication as married man; refuses inclusion of ordination or Penicuik farewell speeches - entered ministry without hope, because expected, successful helping poor folk but managed to save money, laid aside chains after eight years; Harper's work will last centuries; will provide material about two uncles at Castle Douglas Station

1906-12-29

biography discretion, mother's deception, typewriter malfunction, Duncan Robertson deletion, Sir Herbert Maxwell, The Stickit Minister review, Robertson Nicoll, British Weekly, photographs, collegiate memories, travels and women, ordination speech, Penicuik farewell, ministry ambivalence, financial prudence, uncles at Station

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Malcolm Harper, Duncan Robertson, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Robertson Nicoll, British Weekly, uncles at Castle Douglas Station

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Torwood

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