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Notebook of Richard Fursman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3924
Scope and Contents
Containing a system of shorthand, notes on Hebrew grammar and four sermons.
Dates:
1658-1662.
Sermons, 1701-1752, of Ebenezer Erskine.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5886
Scope and Contents
Most of the sermons are in shorthand.
With sermons, 1765-1770, probably of Ebenezer Erskine`s nephew, James.
Dates:
1701-1770.
Sermons and lectures, mostly in shorthand, of Fife ministers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4687
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Sermons of James Blair and William Eccles, Ministers at Paisley, taken down in shorthand.
File
Identifier: MS.7173
Scope and Contents
There are some notes and summaries (folios 84, 204), proper names, and quotations in Latin (passim) in cursive script. A few leaves at the beginning are missing. The shorthand used resembles the system devised by T Metcalfe, (‘Radio-stenography, or short writing’) from which it was probably adapted by the copyist himself.
Dates:
1681-1682.
Two notebooks containing texts of sermons and shorthand sermons of the Lawson family, secession ministers at Selkirk.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5207
Dates:
1783-1795, 1810.