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Gloomy Memories
Donald Macleod

£7.50
Weight 380g

Gives an eyewitness account of the Highland clearances in Strathnaver. 'I was present at the pulling and burning of the house of William Chisolm'. Donald Macleod wrote this letter with those he sent to the Edinburgh Chronicle describing the story of a 100 year old bed-ridden woman being evicted. Seallar's comment was 'damn her the old witch she has lived too long'.

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