"Officers of law and law-breakers, debt collectors and bankrupts, secret agents and advertising detectives - an enquiry, occasioned by the sixtieth anniversary of the formation in Glasgow in 1947 of Rutherford & Macpherson, messengers-at-Arms".
"First published on 1st October 2007 at the meeting of the Advisory Council on Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers, Edinburgh".
Mergers in messengery : a confusion of livet and Clyde by R. A. Macpherson. ISBN 9780955865107. Published by Rutherford & Macpherson in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.