Regards -
J D Ross
The earliest Scottish contacts with Poland
I am able to present these pages to you thanks to two scholars; Stanislaw Seliga and Leon Koczy Ph.D., who in 1969, published "Scotland and Poland; A Chapter of Forgotten History". In Foreword to the publication Leon Koczy wrote:
"We are publishing these papers with the kind permission of the Editor with a desire to receive an old but forgotten chapter of Scottish-Polish history, and we hope that they will help in fostering friendship between our nations. The following papers are reprinted from the commemorative volume "The University of Edinburgh and Poland" edited by Wiktor Tomaszewski, M.D., Ph.D., Edinburgh 1968, printed at the Aberdeen University Press Ltd, and published as " an act of homage to the University of Edinburgh for the help it gave during the Second World War to keep alive the light of Polish higher education in one of the darkest periods in the history of the Polish nation." [...] Finally, Thomas Campbell's devotion to the Polish cause has been warmly praised by J. A. Teslar in a recently published paper, which includes the text of six letters preserved in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, in the Actes de la Societe Hist. et Litteraire Polonaise in Paris and in the "Polish Correspondence" of Lord Dudley Coutts-Stuart."