Laing, Alexander, Fife, Scotland, to Monsignor Robert Seton, Jersey City Heights, New Jersey, 1890 February 15

He thanks Seton for the account of his ancestors of Parbroath. He has made notes from it in his interleaved copy of "Lindores Abbey." They were a gallant race and Seton has reason to be proud of them. In turning over the Register of the Priory of St. Andrews, Laing noticed the head Creich cum capella. This latter is undoubtedly the chapel of which there are remains still at Parbroath. The common people call it Pitbroath or Petbroath; Pit or Pet is the Gaelic for a place. Laing would like to know when the prefix Par came in; broath is in his opinion the Gaelic which means a sloping bank. He thinks he showed Seton a fragment of a sculptured stone he had rescued at Abernethy. He sent one of the casts of it to the professor of archeology in Cambridge University who informed him that it is a representation of the Crucifixion. Laing thanks Seton for his photo and sends one of himself. :: II-1-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.