| Description | Letter dated 23 July 1871 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., Pennan, regarding writing to friends as a suitable way to pass Sunday when the church is far away, meeting with local fishermen, travelling third class on the railway, description of fragrant fellow-passengers, crying babies, notes on the Fraserburgh Railway Hotel, description of Broadsea, onward journey to Rosehearty and Aberdour, description of countryside about, visit to the old Kirk, interesting gravestone, discovery of the gravedigger and arrival of a child's funeral, with sketches, comparison of churches in Aberdour, arrival in Pennan, sketch of section of cliff at Pennan, staying with the 'provost', William West, no butcher meat to be had and diet of eggs, tea and fish, most of the population absent in Gardenstown, Rosehearty and Fraserburgh working, sketch of the remaining old people wandering about the village. |