Dr James Cooper, minister and Professor of Church History, Glasgow University: collection of diaries MS 2283/1-4 are apparently volumes ii, iv, vii, viii, of a diary kept by Cooper from 1867 to 1874 when he was a student of arts and divinity at Aberdeen University, travelling abroad, and acting as an assistant minister in Banchory, Stirling and Elgin. They cover the beginning of his ministry at St. Stephen's Church, Broughty Ferry, entries breaking off abruptly at 18th May 1874. There are no diaires for the period from June 1874 to December 1882 and the remainder, for 1883-1922, are written in volumes of 'Charles Lett's Improved Diaries and Notebooks' for each fo these years. Entires are now mainly concerned with engagements to be filled, movements etc., but some 715 letters, papers and newspaper cuttings have been pasted in between pages, on interleaving blotting papers, or remain loosely enclosed. 1867-1922