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[unidentified]

3 Coates Crescent
Edinburgh

19th February, 1934.

John Buchan, Esq., M.P.,
House of Commons,
London.

Dear Sir

I have read your book on the massacre of
Glencoe, and I trust you will excuse a line from an old
Seanachaidh upon the "wife of Sandy Macdonald, Glenlyon's
niece," and some other points.

Glenlyon must have known Old Glencoe long
before the massacre for they witnessed at Balloch on 26th
January 1681 a deed by Archibald Macdonnell of Keppoch to John
Earl of Caithness. Old Glencoe was committed to the
tolbuith of Inverary by order of the Earl of Argyle and
escaped therefrom in April 1674 and Sir James Macdonald
was called upon to produce him and John MacDonald of
Auchtriatin for several murders and and depredations.

In 1691 Alexander son to the Laird of Glencoe
had been a captain of foot in Major Buchan's Regiment
and is described as a papist, and in 1691 was a prisoner
in Fort William and to be sent to Glasgow.

Alexander was married to a niece of Robert
Campbell of Glenlyon prior to 13th February 1692. Who
was /