Lot Essay
OF GREAT RARITY. Only one record of an institutional holding worldwide -- in the National Library of Scotland. In the first letter, the author admits that 'there is an element of absurdity in the spectacle of men of mature years driving a small ball over the green sward, or out of a bunker'. But he proceeds to explain the game in a concise manner. His seventh letter is about golf books: 'the genuine golfer will deprive himself of much refined pleasure ... if he do not make some acquaintance with the Literature of Golf.' Murdoch 588.
![[LAWS0N, ALEX.] LETTERS ON GOLF BY A PARISH MINISTER. ELGIN: BLACK, WALKER & GRASSIE, 1889.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CKS/2012_CKS_06021_0267_000(laws0n_alex_letters_on_golf_by_a_parish_minister_elgin_black_walker_gr024242).jpg?w=1)