Written on Glasgow Art Club headed notepaper, with emblem in red and addressed 185 BATH STREET, GLASGOW.

Nisbet Vol. I page 304 I have seen the seal of arms of one John Leper Burgess in Edinburgh appended to an assignation of 10 merks payable out of the lands of Dundas, dated the 1st September 1189, whereupon was a shield with a chiveron between three leopards’ heads as equivocally relative to the name: and round the Seal were these words. Sig Johannis Leper Burgess Burgi de Edinburgh: and was so dignified in the body of the assignation which is yet to be seen in the custody of the Lairds of Dundas. And in our old records of arms the name of Libberton was azure a leopards head erased or.

(There follows a sketch in pencil of the
coat of arms described, followed by:

‘Sheriff D. Leslie – Septr 24 1860 He lived in 36 Dalhousie Street from 1858 to 1861’,

also in pencil. This is probably in the hand of William Leiper; Sheriff John Dean Leslie was presumably the author of the main body of the document and someone the architect was acquainted with through the Glasgow Art Club. They were likely also kinsmen, given the tendency of the surname Leslie to recur.

A letter from Sheriff John Dean Leslie to William Leiper, dated 3^rd July 1894, has also been preserved.)