On September 4th we have some things which seemed important at their time--the Queen's visit to Scotland.

He says, "It was a stirring subject for old Scotland." "This day, 4th Sept., I read prayers and preached before her Majesty, and also dined and sat near Prince Albert and the Queen.

In the evening presented to the Queen and Prince Albert, and introduced to Sir Robert Peel." Then comes the cry--"All vanity of vanities!" At the end of this month the Bishop of London--"very agreeable"-- was in Edinburgh, and the Dean accompanied him to Glenalmond, to see the proposed site for Trinity College.

In 1843 he mentions the death of a friend, who, he feared, died an infidel: "However, I have no wish to proclaim his errors.

To me he was ever kind and considerate.