Description:Millie’s papers include a number of letters written to her from old boys of the Sutherland Technical School in Golspie.
Many of the letters are thanking Millie for copies of a book written about the history of the school and its development which Millie distributed amongst the old boys in 1912. The letters also mention forming a ‘Sutherland Technical School Old Boys Club’, the rules of which also feature in Millie’s papers. The letters reflect the important role of the school in the lives of its old pupils.
A letter from one old boy, Henry Mill, writes ‘When I left Golspie I went home to work on out farm with my father and my learning at the Technical has helped me a great deal with my work’. Another letter from an old boy named J. W. Sutherland states ‘at present I am studying agriculture (for which I had an excellent groundwork at the Technical) at Aberdeen Agricultural College’. Old boy Ellington Rae thanks the Duchess ‘for the most excellent training I have received during the time I was there’.
Many of the letters, including one from Alex J. Mackay thank Millie for ‘the great kindness shown us by your Grace during those three pleasant and profitable years spent at School’. Other letters, such as one from George S. Mackintosh commend the book as ‘a reminder of the “Good old Tech” where I spent such a pleasant three years of my schooldays’.
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