FAMILY TIES
I enjoyed Antoinette Galbraith's recent article [Turning Japanese, September 2019] and wanted to alert anyone connected with, or interested in, the garden at Cowden to a fascinating book which belonged to my late mother. Entitled Alicella, this fascinating memoir written by Averil Stewart of Murdostoun, Lanarkshire (and published by John Murray, London, in 1955) detailed her life and that of her sister Ella, who created the garden at Cowden. I am sure any Stewart connected with these houses would know of this book but for others it provides a fascinating insight into the lives of those who led a privileged but considerate and well educated life.
Elspeth A. Bryden, Inverness-shire