Access for all

I WISH to protest at the plan of the Scottish Catholic bishops to divide and disperse the Scottish Catholic Archives presently held at Columbs House in Edinburgh to Aberdeen University Library and to a yet to be established episcopal headquarters in Pollokshields in Glasgow.

Some of the Blairs College Library of Aberdeen is at present on loan to the National Library of Scotland, where it is easily accessible to scholars, with the National Museum of Scotland, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and 10 Drummond Place all in easy walking distance.

The best solution would be to transfer its collection of pictures to the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, and the Jacobite memorabilia and the collection of Church precious vessels and rare old vestments to the National Museum of Scotland, where the public could have easy access.

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The collections at 10 Drummond Place belong not to the Scottish Catholic bishops as such, but to the Scottish Catholic community and, as part of Scottish history, also to the wider Scottish public.

Colin McAllister

South St,

St Andrews

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