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Jane Hutcheon's avatar

I’d love to read your work Carolyn. Thanks for your lovely comments. Let me know how I can help x

Carolyn E.'s avatar

You are correct but I am not sure about how substack works. I do mean how do I send it to you for comment? I’m no where near sending a completed draft. I just wondered how to make a beginning.

Linda Teather's avatar

Thanks Jane for continuing your story. Good luck with taking your story around Australia. I’m certain it will be a positive experience wherever you go.

Jane Hutcheon's avatar

Hi Linda, how are you? Opening night was amazing. I am heading to the 'Top End' of Australia tomorrow for the next leg of the tour. Thanks so much for reading, and for your help and good wishes!

Carolyn E.'s avatar

Hi Jane,

I enjoyed reading this, particularly Uncle Henry's life story. But I also like the approach to your families life stories based on the Eurasian family photo. You also mention their locations moving between Shanghai and Hong Kong. There are authentic pearls of information about your Mum and keepsakes and how you introduce Uncle Henry. The entrepreneur who owned property before WW2 and then suffered internment and loss of property. And you offer an assessment of your grandfather Kit.

I haven't come across high tea being called 'tiffin' but just so you know I returned to Scotland and had afternoon tea with one of my Mum's friends, in the seventies. My memories start returning for me.

I think the photo of your Uncle Henry's house and his Scottish outfit are real conversation starters. Likewise, that you heard from Historic Shanghai.

Did you include this point in the 'Lost in Shanghai' production for this year?

I am encouraged by your enthusiasm for your story and your Mum's and the biographical writing that it has inspired.

If I was to share my families life story with you on substack can you offer editorial comments?

I am new to substack. I did have a wordpress account. It has been deleted.

I need to know how I can send you my families biography in small parts, as time permits for both of us?

Best Wishes

Carolyn E

Jane Hutcheon's avatar

Hello again Carolyn, I'm sorry I misread the last part of your post. I thought you wanted to post your family's biography on Substack but I think I misunderstood. Did you mean that you wanted to send it to me? For feedback?

Kay Flanagan's avatar

I googled my grandmother’s name (Elsie May Hutcheon), born in 1905, and got a link to this post.

I wonder if we are distantly related. Her family emigrated from Turiff near Aberdeen to the USA in the 1840s, but there is a death record of one of her father’s or grandfather’s siblings in Dalhousie, India.

I rarely check my Substack, as I use Medium more, under the same name, but I’ll keep an eye out for a response.

Jane Hutcheon's avatar

Hi Kay, I’m not aware of this branch but I will look into it later this year when I finish my study. Thank you.

Carolyn E.'s avatar

Will do. Thank you very much.