Carmichael, Mary Frances, c1843-1928
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Extract of a diary written by Alexander Carmichael including part of a journey from Uibhist/Uist [to Edinburgh], 6 January 1872 to 10 January 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/93
Scope and Contents
Extract of a diary written by Alexander Carmichael including part of a journey from Uibhist/Uist towards Edinburgh. In it, Carmichael is pining for his pregnant wife Mary, who is in Edinburgh and is anxious about her health. It is clear that there has been a lack of correspondence between them causing each of them distress 'No letter no watch. God grant that she is well. Oh Mary Mary if you knew my suffer[in]g you would not thus treat me...God grant y[ou]r safe arriv[al] home my darling wife...
Dates:
6 January 1872 to 10 January 1872
Journal account of departure of Eoghan Carmichael's departure for Africa, 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/1
Scope and Contents
Journal account written by Alexander Carmichael of the departure of his son Eoghan for Africa describing seeing him off at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, noting who met him in London and that he set sail on the 'SS Scot' from London, England for Chinde, East Africa [Mozambique]. Of his departure, Carmichael writes 'Poor darling boy! We shall not see him at the soonest for five years - perhaps never. God alone knows. This is the first break in the family.'
Dates:
6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893
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- Dunvegan Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- London (England) 1
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- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Portree Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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