Letter to Mr Will
| ID | JSS0154 |
| Title | Letter to Mr Will |
| Document Reference | MS2726/155 (verso) |
| Format | 177 x 224 mm |
| Medium | Handwritten note/letter on plain paper |
| Item Type | Manuscript |
| Subject | Note/letter handwritten,Mr. Will |
| Item Description | Skinner's letter reads: from 'Gilbert Cottage Auchenblae 1 May Dear Mr Will, You might send on any music you don't want to me here by Thursday as we have a dance after the concert (on 5th May) hope we may have such a house as New Deer You are quite a jolly set of people and I feel disposed to grumble at my fate in being a / native of this Country Aberdeenshire ... Strathspey & Reel - Yours warmly J. Scott Skinner Shall I send you a Logie Coll: ?' Charles John Will (1867-?) was schoolmaster at New Pitsligo in the early 1900s, and a fiddle pupil of Skinner's. Skinner wrote a strathspey, 'Mrs Will' (JSS0153), for his wife. Mr Will was helpful to William Walker and others doing research into William Christie of Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire, and his family (See JSS0511). |
| Creator | James Scott Skinner |
| Creator Manuscript | James Scott Skinner |
| Time Period | 1890-1900 |
| Relationships | JSS0153 |
| Location | University of Aberdeen |
| Collection Name | Harp & Claymore |
| Copyright | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/documents/copyright |
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