| Description | Wet copy letter book pertaining to Aberdeen Blind Asylum. Letters are mostly those of David M.M. Milligan (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); 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. Some letters around renovation works in 1900 signed by George Bennett Mitchell, architect. Indexed by correspondent. |