| Description | Submission to Aberdeen Presbytery claiming leave to state his defence to the re-amended libel. Five/six pages printed, no author, title, place or date. Three copies of the 5-page version, and one copy of the 6-page version, which has minor modifications (mainly to references) and two additional paragraphs at the end, which do not appear in the published version (in MS 3674/3/1/1/6/3). One of the 5-page copies has a contemporary docket in pencil: "plea in Law read by Professor Smith 1 July 1879" |