Manuscript Journal of a Scottish Presbyterian Lady, 1857-186...

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Manuscript Journal of a Scottish Presbyterian Lady, 1857-1865

Manuscript Diary: A calf-bound Volume (disbound), prefaced as “A Private diary of reflection & self examinations, feelings & thoughts on religious subjects …” running from 8 April 1857 to 9 July 1865.

The writer (unidentified), a married lady, lived at Kirkwood, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.  The first third of the text consists of a detailed and moving account of the illness and death of her sister Jessie, aged 21, on 14 March 1857.  The remainder comprises weekly entries recording the family’s attendance at the Lord’s Day services in various churches (Old Monkland, Sandiford, Greyfriars Kirk, Dunkeld Cathedral), with comments on the preachers and their sermons; detailing also her father’s death on 21 February 1865, aged 65.  (1)