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- ↑ Duncan, George John C. (1848). Memoir of the Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D., Minister of Ruthwell, Founder of Savings Banks, Author of Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons, &C., &C. Edinburgh, London: W. Oliphant Hamilton, Adams. p. 77.
- ↑ Cowan, R. M. W. (1946). The Newspaper in Scotland: A Study of Its First Expansion 1815–1860. Glasgow: George Outram & Co. Ltd. pp. 46–7.
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