More than 2000 Scottish history letter was stolen. Found in Canada

Thousands of historical documents were then returned to their homework in Scotland’s national records in three decades.

Alan Borthwick, an archive, an archivist in Scotland’s national records, an archive playing a key role in bringing them back, wished a “feeling of satisfaction” Now as they are ready to use by a new generation historians.

Lost letters, family, property and business correspondence returned on March 25, some include dating all ways until the 1600s.

Borthwick’s surprise, they were field.

How are they missing

By ensuring that Scotland’s national records, research, education and legal purposes are entrusted to protect and maintain and maintain the country’s public recordings.

However, it was discovered in 1994.

A total of 200 items from the collection face in auction in London. The investigation asked for investigation and Borthwick, one of the national records of Scotland, was instructed to crack the case.

“My colleague … probably amazed to see a lot of letters from the collections we hold in our office, so we could restore many things,” said Borthwick said Quite The host Nile Koksal.

“When I returned to our office in Edinburgh, I was asked if I could look at me.”

As the Borthwick was filtered, it adapted reference numbers to the parents’ collection and stolen from Scotland’s national records.

“It’s alarm calls really started to swim,” said Borthwick.

However, it was not difficult to determine the alleged sinner – even if someone wants to remove reference numbers and stealing the substances.

Through the cross-reference to the records of the National Archive, returning to 1847, Borthwick was zero in a man: David Macmillan.

He was born in Scotland in 1925 and worked in the archive for a year of Macmillan Although it continues to exit the archive after the archive, starting in 1949.

This entry was canceled after a document was removed from the archive in 1980.

At the same time, the staff believed that it was isolated. But while Borthwick then discovered, on a scale, finally to be understood, it was greater.

The plot is thickened

Over ten years in ten years, Borthwick, Borthwick, Peterborough was a researcher who saw a reference in an online catalog at the University of Trent in TRENT University, as was the origin of Scottish.

When I visited the University of Trent, Borthwick said it was shocked. It was about 2,000 items claim The national records of Scotland were abducted by Macmillan and was placed in Canada.

In fact, 3100 stolen items were found. Among them, about 500 documents were abducted from other UK, and about 500 substances, a collection and 100 items are unknown to private owners.

Macmilla, who moved to Canada in 1968, has taught history in school for 20 years. He died in 1987 and documents were given to the university.

Borthwick said that the school has so far “completely amazed,” the retired archive.

“They couldn’t imagine. There are no reason to imagine … These documents were stolen to the Macmillan professor who tested the archives,” Borthwick.

Looking for a clue

Although it is not possible to ask Macmillan, who is not charged with the crime, his motif, Borthwick says that the items themselves are a large cache of individual letters.

“Most likely, the professor was the macmilla’s clanal interest, postal history, in other words, in other words,” said Borthwick.

According to foreign living among the people of Scotland, correspondence was recorded with different and unusual postcards.

And Borthwick shows that it could be an innocent thought that causes it.

“We think maybe Professor Macmillan, ‘Oh, I would like to be a really nice, interesting postage brand, my collection.”