Dear Patricia Everything in the 1888 letter seems to point to Aberdeenshire, though we did not previously know of many Lairds there. We are still trying to find out about Glenhuntly and it seems more than a coincidence that Huntly is the Gordons' seat. I was brought up wearing a Gordon Kilt as a friend of my father, Alasdair Kennedy once found a connection between Lairds and the Gordons in an old reference, but it has since disappeared. The Laird hunt for an appropriate Tartan is an eternal one! The Gordons are to Aberdeenshire as the Sinclairs are to Caithness. Further, my mother is from Aberdeenshire, and her maiden name, Laing, is associated with the Gordons. I spent my childhood holidays on the Cluny Estate near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, where my maternal Grandfather was the joiner. Nobody knows anything about Glenhuntly though. Where tartan searches are concerned I did suggest as a joke to the Earl of Caithness when we were in Norway that the tartan they use there might be the lost Laird Tartan. He responded that if it was, it was still Sinclair! We keep looking! Yours aye Iain