Abstract
The library of St. Peter's College, Cardross, possesses an apparently unique copy of a pamphlet, printed in Rothesay just one hundred years ago. This pamphlet, written by Dr. Robert Hay,1 a conspicuous figure in the Catholic life of the West of Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century, deals with the work of Mrs. Kelly, the matron of the Catholic Orphan Institution, founded in Glasgow to succour the children orphaned by the Asiatic Cholera epidemic of 1832. Readers of The Innes Review will welcome the complete text of this hundred-year-old pamphlet for the unusual and charming picture it gives of the Catholic community of Glasgow in the days of our great-grandfathers. The text of the pamphlet tells its own story and needs no introduction, but one should mention that we owe the survival of this pamphlet, written by a nineteenthcentury doctor, to the antiquarian interest of another well-known Glasgow medico, the late Dr. Joseph Scanlan, M.B., CM., who acquired possession of this booklet and presented it for preservation to the library of St. Peter's College half a century ago.
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