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we have been concerned over our name
we started as the "Lamplighters Club" now
our fate is likely to be " The Ancient & Modern
Arts Club". a portenious title which I don't
much incline to, but will probably have to
accept. Our present members are, Pat:
:rick Murray, D. J. Cameron, the artist & Etcher,
Douglas Strachan. stained glass Artist, of high
repute, Morley Fletcher, Director of the College
of Art, Frank Deas, Architect, Sir Robert
Lorimer, James Paterson, Artist, - Warrack,
ship owner, I fancy, but also a man of
excellent taste & connoisseurship, and myself.
we sit late; it is invariably between 12.0 & 1.0
ere I get home. At the be:
:ginning of the year I was elected to a
dining club chiefly composed of University
Professors - in fact there are 40 members and
⅔ of these must be connected with the Uni:
:versity. We dine in the Free Church Assembly
Hall library, once a month during Nov. Dec.
Feb. & March. I have dined twice this
winter and enjoyed it though I am a
little afraid of my society, it is so erudite.
This has been for weather one of the
worst years on record. Much grain

in the Northern Counties rotted in the stooks,
in fact much of it was,I believe, never cut.
Potatoes were a failure in many places and
are now getting scarce. I believe the early ap:
:pointed food-controller is going to regulate
their distribution.
In the Museums there is little doing.
The structural work in Queen St. has been finished.
& there only remains the setting of wood blocks
on the floors, but these are hard to procure.
The office of Works holds out hopes of our
getting back into our library or rooms early
in the year but much water will still run
through the bridge before the collections are
back in their places & the Museum is ready
for public exhibition once more. A
short time ago I was informed by a lady
that she was finding wonderful relics in her
coals, spear heads, arrow heads, filagree &
enamel work. I suspected a mental problem
so asked her to send specimens. In due course
a box arrived containing samples of coal
& cinders such as might be picked out of
any hearth or coal box but in these this
Antiquarian visionary saw models of parrots,
eagle, elephants, horses, the "dog headed ape"
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