Abbotsford Club Abbotsford Club The Abbotsford Club was a text publication society founded in Edinburgh in 1833 or 1834. This was the year after the death of Sir Walter Scott, whose residence of Abbotsford House gave the society its name, and whose literature the club's publications sought to illuminate. The club was modelled on the Roxburghe Club, of which Scott himself had been a member, as well as the Bannatyne Club, which was founded by Scott, and the Glasgow-centred Maitland Club. The founder and first secretary of the club was William Barclay Turnbull, a young Edinburgh lawyer. The stated objective of the
The Tweed Daily part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project hosted by the National Library of Australia. The Tweed Daily The Tweed Daily was a daily English language newspaper published in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia from 1914 to 1949. It was also published as the "Tweed and Brunswick Advocate and Southern Queensland Record", "Tweed and Brunswick Advocate", "Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate", "Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle", "Tweed and South Coast Daily", "The Daily News", "Tweed and Gold Coast Daily News", and the "Tweed Daily News". The first edition of the "Tweed and Brunswick Advocate and Southern Queensland Record" was published