She did -- and it also feels very much like her most personal book; revealing most clearly her atttitude on issues like Scotland / the UK, the British Empire, British postwar society, education, etc.

Hahaha, really? :) I don't just mean him, though -- I also mean her comparison of Scotland / "Scottishness" to whisky towards the end of the book.

Yes, the most notable changes in the final typescript are deletions about Archie. I know it is not just Wee Archie that you mean. It was a topic close to her heart and I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for her to have had to return to Inverness when her father was ill...about the same time that the town was at the centre of the rise of Scottish nationalism (of the Wee Archie kind). And of course, she went back after her father's death, too. But what I mean is that she must have personally exchanged a few choice words with people who served as the models for Wee Archie, and who probably could understand her point of view as little as she could theirs.