Relations connected with flax-spinning - Special qualifications for his position - How his letters are to be taken - Church connection and interest - Visit to Logie Almond and the Sma' Glen - Letter from Manchester - Drive to Blackburn - Letter from Leeds - Baptism in Dr Wardlaw's - Business first, pleasure afterwards.
Favourite summer resorts - Enjoyment of the country - Talk with countrywoman - Sabbath morning scene - Advice on the choice of a path in life - Picture-seeing and picture-buying - A gale - Harwood - Dream of Moffat - Stereoscopic views - a cold new year - Improvements in hackling - Apparatus for preventing accidents - At Elie - Castle garden, Crail - A day's fishing - On the watch - "Sair Dung" - Bob's first swim - First introduction - His home - His appearance and character - Youngest sister's death.
A lazy watchman - Buildings fire-proof - Effect of alum solution - Experiments - Theory put into practice - Paper on factory chimneys - The three at the Dens - Effect of a gale - Importance of draught - Houses for workpeople - Spontaneous combustion - Danger of greasy waste and dust - Experiments on oils - Fires in 1865 - Simultaneous fires in 1866 - Charles Mackie's training of nephew James - Tour in manufacturing districts - Trouble from masons - The limited principle - Domestic troubles.
The Glamis Burn - Flax cultivation encouraged - Operations performed at the mill - Method of retting - Analysis of yield from straw - Letter to Mr William Baxter - Opposition to the Rettery - Scutching machines - Watt's patent for retting - Glamis mill sold.
Paper on the bursting of boilers - War between France and Prussia - Death of his wife - Her burial in Kettins Kirkyard - Death of Sir David Baxter - Managers and heads of departments - Prosperity of Dundee - The Dens Works in 1873 - Mr W.O. Dalgleish - Advantages of residence in the country - Extracts from letters on - an aurora, haymaking, toothache, a dream, the singing of birds, apparatus for pressing and tying bales, a sermon, a holiday - Death of his daughter.
Evening Telegraph cut out regarding a Chalmers-Ardler Church mission in Romania and the struggles related to the repression of religious beliefs and religious literature under communist rule.
Issue of the Whitfield Partnership news including information about the components, targets and objectives of the partnership in regards to the improvement of Whitfield.
Transfer papers from the Polish Resettlement Corps, in English and Polish.. Provides infromation about Oskar Bolik's transfer to the Royal Army Reserve.
