| Description | Wet copy letter book pertaining to Aberdeen Blind Asylum. Letters are mostly those of John Whyte (of Davidson and Garden), clerk and treasurer, concerning buildings and financial matters (thanking for donations, paying off accounts, acknowledging legacies); admission of workers to the Asylum (accommodation was determined by age: inmates who reached a certain age could still be educated or employed but had to be boarded out); administration of the old Orphanage in Huntly Street which belonged to the Asylum (to be let in 1889); fundraising; serious problems with drainage; removals of inmates on various health grounds. Very few details on inmates or workers. Payments to willow merchants and flock manufacturers indicate the type of work the inmates were expected to do: basket weaving and mattress-making. Indexed by correspondent. |