Articles by Colin MacLean which were published in the Glasgow Herald and The Times in the 1940s drew heavily on information from his mother's letters, as did a television programme on the 1843 Disruption and his family, which was broadcast by the BBC in Scotland in the early '70s. But Isabella MacLean was his mother, and, for all he knew, everyone's mother wrote like that, and it was only gradually that Colin MacLean came to realize how exceptional was her memory and how unusual her talent as a letter-writer, and to kick ...
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Articles by Colin MacLean which were published in the Glasgow Herald and The Times in the 1940s drew heavily on information from his mother's letters, as did a television programme on the 1843 Disruption and his family, which was broadcast by the BBC in Scotland in the early '70s. But Isabella MacLean was his mother, and, for all he knew, everyone's mother wrote like that, and it was only gradually that Colin MacLean came to realize how exceptional was her memory and how unusual her talent as a letter-writer, and to kick himself for not having kept all or most of her letters.
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