| Collection | GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections |
| Level | Series |
| Ref No | MS 3027/13 |
| Title | Journal of Jonathan Troup: 25th of March 1793 to 27th of June 1793 |
| Date | 25th of March 1793 - 27th of June 1793 |
| Extent | Pages 301 - 322 |
| Creator Name | Jonathan Troup (c1764 - 1799), physician, of Aberdeen, Scotland and Dominica, West Indies |
| Description | Journal of Jonathan Troup: 25th March - 27th June 1793
He received a letter from the Minister of Strathdon stating that Helen (Nelly) Forbes has named him the father of her child and he made a visit to Strathdon regarding this. Later, he remarked that the Minister of Strathdon has given him up to the Kirk Session of Coldstone regarding Nelly Forbes. Nelly Forbes delivered of his daughter and he later met her in Migvie. She had come from Strathdon with his child
Troup stated that he must show the letter from the Minister of Strathdon to Miss Fraser and 'of course expect a confession from her of her amours and all her life transactions or I am off'. He wrote a love letter to Miss Fraser. She replied denying him as a lover but requesting him to remain a friend. A few days later, he visited Broomhill to find that Miss Fraser loves him and has submitted to bear an examination regarding her gallants. He wrote a letter to her telling her that he will marry her on the 20th of June. He quotes from the letter but has later scored it out. He remarked that Miss Fraser has answered his letter so he must marry her according to his promise but later had a disagreement with Miss Fraser and her family and stated that 'I am off if Miss F does not write me or inform me in 14 days'. He scored out passages on these pages (pages 306 - 307) but they seem to refer to the guilt of Miss Fraser. Miss Fraser is mentioned repeatedly and Troup is very agitated that he hasn't heard from her. There are several passages about her which he has later scored out. He wrote to Miss Fraser enclosing books so that she has an excuse to write back to him and received a letter that day from Miss Fraser in which she asks to see him at Broomhill. Troup decided to play hard to get. Miss Fraser has returned the books he sent her but without a letter. A few days later, he visited Broomhill to see Miss Fraser who is unhappy with him and remarks that she now knows that guilty people think everyone else is guilty. He wrote writes again to Miss Fraser asking her to marry him but received a reply the same day refusing him so he 'is off'
He cut out a growth from the mouth of a woman
He read 'Philosophical Transactions' Volume 80 (1790)
He copied out Miss Fraser's and his own notes on Zimmerman's Solitude
He treated a servant girl with a sprained shoulder and Erysipelas
He saw a 5 month old with constant vomiting
He read selected stories from the french of M. Benquin
He read '[Fair] American' (2 volumes)
He treated a case of measles
He treated children at Migvie with smallpox
He treated Margaret Henry aged 48 for indigestion
He treated Grace Donaldson who is very ill with measles
He saw a 2 year old child with smallpox. The child later died
He treated a girl who has a pain in the top of her thigh and small of her back
He made notes from J Lackington's 'Life as a Bookseller'
He opened an encysted tumour in a woman
He read [Roblus] Tragedy by Schiller, a German (London 1792) |
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