There follows a bound typescript, the PhD thesis of Dr Peter William MacAulay as submitted and accepted by Aberdeen University.
A copy of the full thesis has also been lodged with Western Isles Libraries but I have duplicated the introduction to the work in its place with the other documents – the writings and correspondence concluding with Peter’s Will and Testament. These seem to have been written over a considerable period of time.
Two notes, written by Peter, are set out below.
‘NOTE 2’ FROM A COMPUTER PRINT-OUT
The memorial stone to Hess which was placed in Eaglesham was destroyed in 1993. To quote the words of a ‘veteran’ National Socialist and founder of the National Socialist Movement of Britain in 1962, C Colin Jordan: ‘Their Asian leader, Aamer Anwar, West of Scotland organiser of the Anti-Nazi League (ANL), a communist front organisation devoted to violence, took up a sledgehammer and proceeded to smash to pieces the memorial to the visitor of 1941.’
‘NOTE 3’
One further typewritten sheet was also found, apparently an appendix to the papers. This appears to be a transcription from the source, as credited, but to date I have not been able to refer to a copy to check this. I do know that Peter was fascinated by alternative versions of the same story.
From The Great Flood of Uig, Isle of Skye, 1877, D. Nairne, 1895
‘Though the weather that prevailed in the Highlands during October was boisterous and destructive, the damage done in other parts of the country was so trifling in comparison that the deluge which occurred in October 1877 will always be known as The Skye Flood. It occurred on Sunday the 13th October, and wrought by far the greatest havoc in the north part of the island, where the rivers drain into the western seaboard. For destructiveness, the flood was unprecedented in Skye, the descent of waters from the hills, where the rain cloud seems to have burst, being sudden and overwhelming. The Conon and the Hinnisdale thundered down in terrible volume, carrying away bridges like matchwood, obliterating crops, sweeping flocks of sheep into the sea, and entirely changing, in several places, the face of the country. At Uig, the ancient graveyard was carried away, all but a small remnant, and hundreds of corpses, in all stages of decay, were scattered up and down the shore, or reburied under the debris, the result of landslips, which was carried down in hundreds of tons. Kilmuir Lodge, belonging to Captain Fraser, which stood on the shore of Uig Bay, was wrecked and the manager, Mr Ferguson, perished in discharging what he considered to be his duty, having refused to leave the lodge to take care of itself in the peril which began to threaten it as the flood rapidly gained in dimensions.’