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Peter Carmichael of Arthurstone (1809-1891)
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Chapter 2: Flax spinning by machinery in its infancy: Kirkland; Balgonie; Limehouse. [pp.50-73]

Kirkland cotton mills - First flax mill at Benvie 1787 - First spinning mill for Osnaburgs at Brigton 1790 - Kirkland mill partly a flax mill in 1794 - Burned in 1800 - The new mill - Introduction of gas in 1810 - "The auld licht and the new licht" - Difficulties spinners had to contend against - Life on Levenside - Am born at Kirkland - Father goes to Balgonie - To London in 1812 - Limehouse and the works there - Captain Huddart - Other partners of firm - Visit from uncle David - Events of the time - Westminster Bridge lit with gas - Thames frozen - Visit of the Allied Powers - Opening of Waterloo Bridge - Return to Scotland - Earthquake there - Its effects on the Leven - We settle in Dundee, 1816.

Chapter 6: The Spinning Mills in the Dens. [pp.204-237]

Branches of Linen Trade in 1833 - Process of hackling - The "Hecklers" - Their strikes - Robinson's flat machine - Its drawbacks - different processes of spinning - Spreading and drawing - Delivery of the slivers - Roving - Dry tow spinning - The breaking card - The finishing card - The wet spinning frame - Reeling by hand - Tours in quest of mechanical improvements - Peter's hackling machine - Walker's Mill, Leeds - Improvement in reeling - Fairbairn & Smith's riveting machine - Stanley's patent hopper - Factory Act of 1833 - Its provisions - Education of children - My uncle John's counsels - Rules for my life - Reforms - Reading and study - Growth of flax trade - Want of water.

Volume 2: Life and Letters I. By and edited by Alexander Monfries.

Fifteen chapters: 'First years of married life (1842-1845)'; 'Spinning at Ailly. Friend after friend departs (1845-1846)'; 'Work and inventions (1846)'; 'Trip to France and Into the breach once more (Oct 1846-Mar 1847)'; 'Extension of Works (1847-1851)'; 'Domestic affliction and routine of work (1851-1852)'; 'Partnership (1853)'; 'The retting and scutching of flax (1837-1853)'; 'The Crimean War and Improved Machines (1854-1859)'; 'Visits to Knockando (1859 and 1860)'; 'Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing (1860-1862)'; 'Prosperity and training of the young (1863)'; 'Work and rest (1864-1865)'; 'Fires and chimneys (1865-1866)'; 'Three years following a winter in the south (1866-1869)'.

Chapter 1: First Years of Married Life. [pp.3-21]

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.

Chapter 11: Toiling, Rejoicing, Sorrowing. [pp.223-252]

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.

Chapter 14: Fires and Chimneys. [pp.297-331]

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.

Chapter 2: Trial on Trial. [pp.21-46]

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.

Accounts relating to the Gas Works at Arthurstone

Accounts for the Gas Works and fittings at Arthurstone . Includes plan and sketch plan, letters and accounts from D. Bruce Peebles, engineer and gas meter manufacturer, Fountainbridge Works, Edinburgh [8 items + 2 envelopes]; account from John Neill & Co, Brassfounders and Gas fitters, Edinburgh [1 item]; bills from Caledonian Railway for carriage of goods [3 items]; accounts relating to Thomas Reid, Colbeggie, for mason work [3 items]

Specifications and estimates for work on Arthurstone Estate

Specifications, estimates, accounts and correspondence relating to planting, building work and repairs on the Arthurstone estate. Includes work on farm steading (contractor, Thomas Reid, Colbeggie);list of trees for planting; the supply of hard wood (Messrs Baxter, Dens); larch fencing (contractor, David Chalmers, Blairgowrie); well, pump and piping at Gate Lodge (contractor David Laird, Blairgowrie); building work, Mains of Arthurstone steading (contractor, David Reid, Ley of Hallyburton; fencing at East Ardler farm (contractor, W. Henderson, Springbank); footpath to Ardler Station, with drains (contractor, John Hunter, Loanhead of Meigle); roofing and slater work (contractor, Charles Crichton, Meigle); work on thrashing mill (contractor, Wm McFarlane, Welltown, Meigle). [19 pieces]
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