Letter written by Dr. Kilgour Letter written by Dr. Alexander Kilgour (possibly addressed to Mr. Watt, Minister of Strathdon). 'My Dear Parson, Don't for any sake send any more of your "parishioners" to me with notes of introduction. They don't pay. Country people when they get a note from their minister make it serve in a genteel sort of a way the purpose of an Infirmary Recommendation - that is to say, they call at our houses and think they are entitled to our advice there on the same terms as at the Infirmary. We are up to the dodge from experience. Your three parishioners acted on the principle. Give them Infirmary Recommendations or Nothing. And if they are too fine to go there, they then know that they have no right to trouble us at our own houses'. He goes on to recount the actions of a Strathdon man who had taken bed and board at the hospital whilst he settled a business matter in Aberdeen. 30 July 1860