| Description Of Item | Addressed to James Cleghorn. His letters are on the details of setting up the fund and include: the advantages of insurance companies based on particular professions and the need for a skilled manager, 6th December; introduction for Mr Allison of Leith who has written some proposals, 9th December; a volume of Friendly Society pamphlets (not enclosed), 14th December; approval of Cleghorn's proposals with further details of how capital at death might work and the age of entrants for sickness benefit, 20th December; subscriptions to the health scheme and the children's scheme and discussion of the government annuity scheme with a blank subscription form for the new Edinburgh High School, 22nd December; the articles of constitution of the Scottish Widows Fund to be amended to the needs of the Institution, 31st December 1825; comments on the motion as to Chevalier Marcalet and the necessity for a resolution to request Lord Abercromby and the Chevalier to submit copies of their speeches, followed by an unrelated query on the separation of vegetable matter and tannin, 21st January; introduction to Mr Allister who has 'a taste for mathematics' and could look at the tables, 30th January; asking Cleghorn to be editor to the Railway Experiments Association, 1st February; an introduction to Mr Hector, who will substitute for him at a meeting of those who propose the scheme, 15th April; and a report on Mr Scott's improvements on his farm at Aberlady Bay with discussion of coastal erosion, the clearing of sand and the expertise of Mr Stevenson and Mr Shaw, 15th April. |