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in 1877, Gilfillan's 1858 edition was simultaneously published by James Nichol in
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Gilfillan died after a very short illness on 13 August 1878 at the house of a Mr
Valentine in Brechin, having travelled to that town to officiate at the wedding of a niece. He had given a sermon that Sunday on the subject of sudden death.
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