The Ferryhill Magazine

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The Ferryhill Magazine

The Ferryhill Literary Association was formed in October 1879. This is the first, and most likely only, issue of their printed magazine.

The association had previously produced a manuscript magazine used solely at their meetings. The shown printed version was intended to share their work with a wider audience.

The stated aims of the association were to promote thought, to give impetus to literary work, and to afford a field for the full and free exchange of opinions on all questions set down for discussion.

The contents of the magazine are as follows: Dedicatory sonnet; Editorial note; Session 1884-85; In memoriam (poem); Hobbies; A narrow escape; Lux in tenebris (poem); Life (poem); Ferryhill improvements; A June day's experience; A London slum; A night thought (poem); A fragment (poem).

The association was based in Ferryhill, the area to the south of the centre of Aberdeen. The editorial committee of the magazine were G. Gibb, R. Houston, G. B. Mitchell, D. McMillan, G. Philip, A. C. Riddell.

The magazine was printed by Gibson & Thomson of Aberdeen.

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