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This is the third and concluding volume of the Shennan family history series. It includes a large collection of family letters written between 1867 and 1947 by Alexander Shennan and his youngest son Theodore. The book concludes with some of Theodore Shennan's diaries which he kept between 1888 and 1897. Not only do the letters and diaries still exist but perhaps even more remarkably they were transcribed into digital files by Theodore's youngest daughter, Jean, who died in 2021. The original documents of both letters and diaries are now kept in the archive of Aberdeen University.

In 1940, Theodore Shennan wrote a long letter to his elder son, David. It was hand-written, in fountain pen, and was completed over a series of dates through 1940. By the time he had finished, the letter was 138 pages long.The letter is essentially autobiographical and it describes 'The Old Days'. It includes Theodore's earliest memories in Bathgate, his childhood, his family, his medical training in Edinburgh and anecdotes about his medical colleagues in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and elsewhere. Theodore was born in 1869 and died in 1948. His writing provides a record of the times through which he lived and about the people with whom he had contact.The purpose of this publication is to make Theodore's letter more widely available as a record of family history and of the times through which he lived.