MC
was very close to her only daughter, Anne
, who in 1753 was married at the age of nineteen to James Durham of Largo.
Calderwood, Margaret. “To the Reader; Introductory Chapter”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, 1884, p. vii - lviii.
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Margaret Calderwood
When in June 1756 she set out to travel from Scotland to what is now Belgium, MC
began by writing letters to her married daughter
and keeping a separate, mostly spare and factual journal of...
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Margaret Calderwood
MC
's letters to her daughter
, after she had returned from Continental Europe to London, are more family-focused than her earlier letters from her travels. Her tone about her children and grandchildren is often...