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1 Family tree in C.H. Spence’s handwriting, uncatalogued MS., SAA.
2 Spence, Autobiography, pp.7-16.
3 C.H. Spence, Some recollections of the Life of Helen Brodie Spence – widow of David Spence,
n.d. MS., SAA, p.1.
4 Spence, Autobiography, pp.10-11.
5 Ibid., p.31.
6 Ibid., p.32.
7 Ibid., p.45.
8 Spence family tree, MS., SAA; Spence, ‘Helen Brodie Spence’, p.98; Spence, Autobiography,
p.16.
9 Spence, Autobiography, p.8.
10 Ibid., p.11; Spence, ‘Helen Brodie Spence’, p.62 ; see Brian Abel Smith and Robert Steven,
Lawyers and the Courts: A Sociological Study of the English Legal System 1750-1965, London,
1967.
11 Spence, ‘Helen Brodie Spence’, pp.62-7; P. Hume Brown, A History of Scotland, 3 vols.,
Cambridge, 1911, vol. iii, pp.318-19; Spence, Autobiography, p.7.
12 Spence, Autobiography, p.10.
13 Spence, ‘Helen Brodie Spence’, p.88.
14 Spence, Autobiography, p.8.
15 W.H. Marwick, Economic Developments in Victorian Scotland, London, 1913, p.78; J.M. Gest,
The Lawyer in Literature, London, 1913, p.78.
16 Spence, Autobiography, pp.11-12.
17 Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Scotland, [RCAMS], An Inventory of the
Ancient and Historical Monuments of Roxburghshire, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1956, vol. ii, pp.265,
268, 292-3, 306; A.D. Hope, A Midsummer Eve’s Dream: variations of a theme by William
Dunbar, Canberra, 1970, p.56.
18 Spence, Autobiography, pp.7-8.
19 RCAMS, op. cit., p.298.
20 Spence, Autobiography, p.7.
21 W. Notestein, The Scot in History, New Haven, 1947, p.45. Spence observed, ‘Mrs. Oliphant
says that Jeanie Deans is more real to her than any of her own creations, and probably it is the
same with me, except for this one work’ (Gathered In), Spence, Autobiography, p.55; see Walter
Scott, The Heart of Midlothian, London, 1818.
22 Spence, Autobiography, p.11.
23 Ibid., pp.9, 12, 10, 7, 10, 12.
24 Ibid., pp.16, 12, 10.
25 Ibid., pp.13, 16.
26 Spence family tree, MS., SAA.
27 Spence, Autobiography, p.13. Spence’s arithmetic appears shaky ; they may have had to purchase
two of the six adult passages.
28 D. Pike, Paradise of Dissent, Melbourne, 1957, pp.52-3, 75-83, 99.
29 K. Marx, Capital, vol. i, B. Fowkes (trans), Harmondsworth, 1976, part 8, ch.33.
30 Pike, op. cit. chs. iii, v, vi; M. Roe, ‘1830-50’, in Frank Crowley (ed.), A New History of Australia,
Melbourne, 1974.
31 Pike, op. cit.
32 C.H. Spence, Some Social Aspects of South Australian Life, Adelaide, 1878, p.2.
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