Our final full day in Edinburgh (for this trip) dawned. When we hung out in London for a while I visited the SOAS archives and this time in Edinburgh my big dream was to visit the National Library of Scotland. It wasn’t archives I was after but instead a copy of Arthington’s Million, an annoyingly difficult book to track down. It is the only real biography of Robert Arthington (of “donating to the London Missionary Society and thereby establishing the modern day Zambia-Tanzania border” fame) and so I wanted to read it. I had to go all the way to Scotland, apparently, to do this, but that is no problem because it was fun to visit the library. There’s a famous sibling somewhere nearby. I set out first thing in the morning and on the way managed to stop in to the Dalry Necropolis as I was looking for a Little Free Library (I had a book I wanted to release into the world). That was a nice little wander, and excitingly a sign revealed that the cemetery was the final resting place of…
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