| Custodial History | This file was transferred to the National Records of Scotland by the Diocese in 1983. |
| Description | Correspondence addressed to Bishop Alexander Jolly, c. 1777-1820, mainly of a personal nature, with copies of some replies. Including letters as follows:
From Mr Horsley. Informs Bishop Jolly that Bishop Strachan had died. Dundee, 2 February 1810;
From Bishop Skinner on the death of the Reverend Mr Annand and the suspected occasion of it. Discusses donations, subscriptions, benefactions and minor financial matters in general, including benefactions made by Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, 4th April 1818;
From William Smith, Rosehearty, requesting that the bishop baptise his daughter, 29th February, 1804;
From William Smith, Boghead, requesting the bishop's company at the funeral of the writer's son, William, to be held in Pitsligo churchyard, 18th April, 1814. Endorsed "Dear good William Smith M.A. and student of medicine in Aberdeen.... died at Boghead, 17th April, 1814";
From Reverend John Cruickshank, Turriff, on his impending marriage, 21 May 1791;
From the same, apologising that he could not come to wish the bishop the compliments of the season in person, because of the bad condition of the roads. "We have had a dreadful storm in this country for the last four days, and the accounts we have already received of its effects are very melancholy. A servant of Captain Cummings at Millfield and an old man who was shepherd at Craigston have perished in the snow, and your old acquaintance, Glasslaw very narrowly escaped. Yesterday, there was only about thirty in the chapel here, today no more than 20". Turriff, Epiphany, 1800;
From Bishop Skinner to Bishop Jolly, returning two books written by Dr Morris, which the writer had used in the compilation of a work of his, undated;
From Bishop Drummond, concerning his receipt of letters from Mr Christie at New Crichie, and from Mr Milne in Banff, representing the declining state of the church in that area, in that Tillygask, Chapel Hall and Cruden were either deprived of clergy or about to be so by reason of "absolute poverty". Edinburgh, 12th November 1801. |