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5th May 1913.
On this date I received at Capenoch,
among the letters brought to me by the car
from Dumfries, in which I was going to
pass the day in pursuit of Ancient Monuments,
a letter from Mr Mackinnon Wood, Secretary
for Scotland, offering me the position of
Director of the National Museum of Antiquities,
and some three days after came notice of my
formal appointment from the undersecretary.
In my new post from time to time I shall
have amusing experiences and these
it is my intention to record.
Dr [Doctor] Anderson, though my very good friend,
I must admit was by no means genial
nor did he with any grace tolerate a bore.
Shortly before he retired an elderly man
arrived in my office in a great state of
rage at the treatment which he had received
on proffering some undesirable relic to be
placed in the Museum “That old man spoke
to me as I’ve never been spoken to afore by a
man wi’ a gentleman’s coat on his back,”
was the way my caller expressed his grievance.
I soothed his ruffled plumage and after
much pressing visited his house, a large
villa on the South side, where he invited
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