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Turf Club London W.
GLENMUICK, BALLATER, N.B.
4. 11. 30
Dear Sir
In case you may be bringing out another edition, I hope you will forgive my drawing attention to what may be but a slip of the pen in "Montrose".
About the middle of page 253, you state:
"Montrose went back the road he had come, by the Spital of Glenshee"...
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This appears to be contrary to Page 252 where:
"Montrose sped down the upper glens of Dee, through Glenmuick & down the headwaters of the South Esk".
Glenshee is some 20 miles to the west of Glenmuick and therefore his journey North was not the same, as you state and as you show it to be on the sketch map of his marches.
It is obvious to me, knowing the country so well, that the South going route was the correct one, as the regular pass to the South was up Glenmuick and over the Capel Road to Clora: for example, in 1745, the Lord Ogilvy of the day, (according to his diary,) brought his clan North to Culloden via the Keppel (sic) Road to the Spital of Glenmuick.
I trust that you will forgive the object
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of this letter, but I am a very ardent admirer of your books, and also the one in question concerns a period of Scottish History immediately leading up to one of which I am a keen student, and it strikes me to be a pity that there should be any errors in a book which must go down to posterity as a classic history of Montrose.
Yrs. faithfully
Eric D. Mackenzie (Major)
