Oops, that should have been REPLIED!
My grandfather and great-grandfather also came from Aberdeenshire: my great-grandfather, William B Morren wrote a lot of poems and short stories about local life under the pen-name of Coreen: they were published in the Aberdeen evening paper. He then compiled them into booklets and sod them for 1/- (one shilling) per book: all this after he had been invalided during the First World War in France, and he gave the proceeds to help the war effort.