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Ordnance Survey Office
Inverness
1st May 1872

Dear Sir Kenneth,

The spelling of
your house and Mains has been
given to my men as "Conan House"
"Conan Mains" Many other
objects in the vicinity take their
name apparently from the river i.e.
"Conon Inn" Conon Station" Conon
"Village" Will you Kindly in-
form me if you approve of
the mode of spelling in the
two first named instances ap-
pearing on the Ordnance Plans?
Yrs. [Yours] very truly
(signed) A. B. Coddington
Capt. R.E. [Captain Royal Engineers]

To:
Sir Kenneth Mackenzie Bart. [Baronet]


Ft. George
2nd May

My Dear Sir

I always spell
Conan with an "a" and it
is only due to the accidental
mis-spelling of the Inn sign-
board that the name has
come to be spelt differently
in the other cases you refer
to. The Station and the Post
Office are however now Known
officially as Conon and I
suppose the spelling cannot
now be altered, but I should
like my own house and farm
to be spelt Conan.
I thank you for your
enquiries about this & I am
yours very fauthfully
(signed) Kenneth S. MacKenzie

P.S. I do not Know if you take
note in the survey of the manner
in which the land is divided
into properties, and of the bound
aries which separate these pro-
perties If you do I should like
to examine the boundary line you
have laid down between my pro-
perty and that of Mr. Forbes of
Culloden in Ferrintosh, as we
have a trifling difference about
it which is to be settled as soon
as he returns to this part of the
country.

Ordnance Survey Office
Inverness
5th May .72

Dear Sir Kenneth,

We do not take
note of private boundaries on
our maps. It often happens
that a public boundary is also
a private boundary and this may
be the case in what you allude
to between you & Mr. Forbes of
Culloden. I Know there are
some parish boundaries in the
Black Isle not finally adjusted,

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