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Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life and Biographical Notices of His Correspondents is unavailable, but you can change that!

Andrew Bonar offers a biographical sketch of Samuel Rutherford’s life and a compilation of his correspondences. He includes biographical and historical information to provide context for each letter and appends a glossary of Scottish words and expressions to ease reading. More than 350 letters, many of which were written during Rutherford’s exile in Aberdeen, offer indispensable insight into the...

other in 1634, as may be gathered from allusions to these bereavements, contained in two consolatory letters written to her by Rutherford in these years. She had also, by the same marriage, a son, John, second Viscount of Kenmure, who, however, died under age and unmarried, in August 1649. This event forms the subject of a letter written to her by Rutherford the 1st of October that year. She married a second husband, on the 21st of September 1640, the Hon. Sir Henry Montgomery of Giffen, second son
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