Highland Postbag: The Correspondence of Four Macdougall Chiefs 1715-1865
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
The surviving correspondence of four MacDougall chiefs provides an authentic record of the concerns and vicissitudes of the family during a time of major change in the way of life in the Highlands, and of the impact of local, national and international events upon it. What emerges is a patchwork of family life - love and romance, social occasions and quiet domesticity, illness, disasters, battles, quarrels, journeys and home affairs.Covering a hundred and fifty years, the story begins with the Jacobite I