Catriona (novel)
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Catriona is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped. It was first published in the magazine Atalanta from December 1892 to September 1893. The novel
David Balfour in office of the legal firm
Appin Murder
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The Appin Murder was the assassination by a concealed marksman of Colin Roy Campbell, the Clan Campbell tacksman of Glenure and factor for the Forfeited Estates Commission, on 14 May 1752. The murder,
Catriona (novel)
…of the hero, David Balfour, to gain justice for James Stewart (James of the Glens), who has been arrested and charged in airts and pairts with the Appin Murder. David makes a statement to a lawyer and goes on to meet William Grant of Prestongrange, the Lord Advocate, to press the case for James' innocence…
A memorial to James Stewart of the Glen, who was wrongly convicted and executed for the Appin Murder
Statue of Allan Stewart (left) and the fictional David Balfour (right), from Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, on Corstorphine Rd in Edinburgh
Ballachulish Bridge
Portrait of Duncan Stewart of Ardsheal by John Singleton Copley.