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'A 'Ghobha[r] Ghlas agus an Sionnach' [The grey goat and the fox], 1889
List of tales sent to Reverend D. MacInnes, Oban, Argyll in August 1889.
Account of a journey through Am Muile/Isle of Mull, 19 August 1886
Account of a journey through Am Muile/Isle of Mull in which Carmichael describes being in the company of a geologist from London, and the views down the mountain track to Loch Scridain and Loch Ba, and observing a large cairn 'evidently the result of funerals' and a very yellow frog near the summit. He describes the view to loch Ba as 'glorious in the bright sun after the rain the grass sparkline in the sun and every rill laughed gach caochain sa ghleann ri gaire.'
Account of a trip to Ìle/ Islay entitled 'Iain Og Ile', 3 June 1887
Account of a trip to Ìle/ Islay entitled 'Iain Og Ile' in which Alexander Carmichael describes how he travelled there and his meeting with the Marquis of Lorne before the inauguration of the monument to Iain Òg Ìle [John Francis Campbell of Islay]. He notes the afterdinner speakers, describing his own speech as 'a bungled affair', and also describes Islay House, noting the gardener as Thomas Hill and his connections with the Campbells of Islay.
Account of 'Clann 'Ic Illemhicheil' [Carmichaels], 14 December 1864
Background story to the song entitled 'Mo Nighean Donn a Cornaig' and vocabulary note, 1901
Background story to the song entitled 'Mo Nighean Donn a Cornaig' in which a Tiree [Tiriodh] man is courting a girl in Coll but two other suitors kill him and she 'went out with her fathers kins'. The song itself is not given. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Biographical note about Col Campbell of Taransay, 10 July 1870
Biographical note about Col[onel] Campbell of Taransay [Tarasaigh] that he was uncle to the 'most remarkable fine' and unmarried Captain [Kenneth] Campbell, noting where the captain lived and died. The note also states that the colonel became proprietor of Uardle Kintire [probably Ugadale, Cinn Tìre/Kintyre].
Custom about a blessing stone on Bernara an Easpuig, 8 August 1867
Description of a ghost, August 1883
Description of a ghost 'cosan' seen by a woman at Leitir Ru'altain [Leitir Rubh Altain or Coille na Leitir/Letterwalton, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], who had called on Cuiralainn [Curalan/St Cyril]. She describes the ghost as 'gu'n bhlagh gun bhoi[dhchead]...scropadh glan a chreuc'.
Diagrams of St Moluag's Catherdral and accompanying notes, September 1870
Diagrams of St Moluag's Catherdral [Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and accompanying notes which tell how there were human remains dug up from the foundations of the cathedral 'when the dyke was built round the bur[in]g pl[ace] a few y[ea]rs ago.' The diagrams show measurements of walls, niches, windows and doors with some annotations.