[ Fettes College ] The Fettes Endowment. Papers.

A Collection of approximately 40 items, both printed and manuscript from the papers of J. Calder Macphail, Minister and activist, in good conditon, all with fold marks. The printed material includes: "Statement by the Educational Endowments Committee of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh of their objections to the Draft Scheme for the Administration of the Fettes Endowment . . .", 4pp.fol; Duncan M'Laren, "Fettes College Trustees and the Rights of the Citizens of Edinburgh", 24pp., 8vo (Edinburgh, 1883); Duncan M'Laren, "Objections to the Draft Scheme", 3pp., 8vo, and "Specific Objections to the Principle on which the Fettes Hospital has been established . . . ", 14pp., 8vo; (Draft) Scheme . . .for the Administration of the Endowment known as . . . , [1884], 38pp., fol., disbound "Questions as to Sir William Fettes' Trust, one page, 8vo. "Objection to New Scheme . . .", 1885, 3pp., fol. The manuscript material comprises mainly letters from David Philip, Committee member, and William Jacks, M.P. but also includes: Draft "Supplementary Statement by the Endow[ment] Committee of the Free Presbytery . . . on the Fettes Endowment", 1885, 20pp., folio; draft letters to William Jacks; "Notes as to Calculations on which d[ra]ft Scheme for Fettes is based", 3pp., folio; "Supplementary Statement by the Educational Endowment Committee of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, with reference to their objections to the Draft Scheme for the Administration of the Fettes Endowment issued by the Commissioner acting under the Educational Endowment (Scotland) Acr", 10pp., folio (incomplete?).