Lord MacDonald's Response

[Canadian Livingstone]

On the 8th of April 1815 the Highland Society of London decided to contact clan chiefs and request tartan samples. In their words the chiefs would be "respectively solicited to furnish to society with as much of tartan of his lordships clan as will show the pattern and to authenticate the same by attaching thereunto a card bearing the impression of his lordship's arms". Each sample was to be indentified by the chiefs seal and signature. As Blair Urquart however points out his 1994 book "Tartans" more than a few chiefs upon receiving correspondence from the Society in 1815, were interested in the project but not honestly certain of their Clan tartan. Here is an extract of Lord MacDonald's reponse to the Society from the Urquart book. Lord MacDonald's Reply To the Highland Society