£10
Ephemera; 1873 folded letter Edinburgh to Glasgow with ½d adhesive. The inside is a folded print of a striding (strident ?) man with Edinburgh Castle in the background, headed "MEN WE OUGHT TO KNOW NO.7" and titled at foot "MARWICK. (AFTER TURNER)".
James David Marwick had just been offered a salary of £2,500 to become Glasgow's Town Clerk - headhunted from Edinburgh ! His story is online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_David_Marwick
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