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Free Church of Scotland, establishment

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of letters of Thomas Chalmers, mostly to Rebecca Bell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2083
Scope and Contents Collection of 15 signed autograph letters from Thomas Chalmers, Edinburgh and Burntisland, 1832-1842. All but one are addressed to Miss Rebecca Bell of Woodhouse Lee, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire (the remaining letter to George Bell of Leith), discussing the state of the Church of Scotland during the campaign that culminated in the Disruption and the establishment of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. He also offers spiritual advice, and discusses Miss Bell's proposed foundation of a new...
Dates: 1832-1842

Copy of ‘General account of Congregationalism in Scotland from 1798 to 1848’

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GEN 1
Scope and Contents

General history of Congregationalism in Scotland from 1798 to 1848, and particular accounts referring to separate counties. 463 pages divided into regional sections, with each section having its own pagination. The volume is a photocopy of a typescript of an anonymous account c.1850. Neither the author, nor the compiler of the photocopy, is known.

Dates: c.1850