126 A Journey to London in 1840. 



6. Bibliography: A work entitled "Scottish Pewter-Ware and 

 Pewterers," by L. Ingleby Wood, published by George A. 

 Morton, 42 George Street, Edinburgh. Chapter XI. of this 

 work is devoted to Tokens and has two plates illustrating. 



18th November, 1f)tO, 



Chairman— H. S. Gladstone, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 

 President. 



A Journey to London in 1840. By Thomas Murray, Author 

 of T/te Literary History of Gallpway. Edited from the 

 Original MS. by Mr John A. Fairley, Davidson's Mains, 

 Midlothian. 



Under the heading " Reminiscences of a Journey ' ' Mr 

 Murray gives the following account of a trip he made to London 

 in 1840, in his MS. volume already referred to. Apart from the 

 undoubted interest of the narrative the unconscious revelation of 

 the writer's individuality is altogether delightful. His self com- 

 placency and his sense of his own importance indicate a successful 

 man of a somewhat bourgeoisie type of mind, while tlie references 

 to his personal intimacies and his libations as certainly show that 

 he was of social predilections and a man whose company was pro- 

 bably welcomed by his friends. His powers of observation were 

 respectable, and as a rule his criticisms just. 



J. A. F. 



Reminiscences of a Journey. 



Having never been in London and having resolved to pay a 

 visit to that great city, I left Edinburgh for the purpose at six 

 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 19th of May, 1840. I went via 

 Glasgow and Liverpool in order to travel by railroad from this 

 latter town to the metropolis. The coach by which I went to 

 Glasgow took the southern road by Calder, Whitburn, Kirk of 

 Shotts, and West or Old Monkland. As the history of the differ- 

 ent places through which I passed was known to me I recalled as 

 I went along the various interesting circumstances connected with 

 each of them. 



