HISTORIC DOCUMENT.
MASSACRE OF GLENCOE. NEW ZEALANDER’S RELIC. LONDON, Juno 6. According to a paragraph in various piovincial newspapers there has arrived in London from Now Zealand what is claimed to be the original of a document of great historical interest, particularly to Scotland. This purports to bo the order issued to Captain Robert Campbell, of Clenlyon, by one Robert Duncaiison, oil behalf of tho Crown, for the Massacre of Glencoe, in 1692. The document has every appearance of age and authenticity. Meanwhile, it is in the hands of experts before going to auction at one of the histone salerooms.
“How it came lo London,” says a writer, “is one cf the little romances of colonisation. A New Zealander visiting London for the exhibition was asked to dispose of it here on behalf of a family of Scots settlers, in whose possession the document has been for generations. This agent finds himself considerably embarrassed by the apparent value of the ‘scrap of paper’ he lightly undertook to sell. The proper place for the letter, if it is genuine, is, of course, in the Royal Scottish Museum at Edinburgh.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1073, 21 July 1924, Page 3
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188HISTORIC DOCUMENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1073, 21 July 1924, Page 3
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