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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates:
1887
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates:
2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.
Dates:
14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1872-1893
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The marjority of the notebook relates to material collected in Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire but there are a number of loose leaves at the end which contain an account of a journey from Uibhist/Uist through An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, during which time his wife, Mary is in Edinburgh and is pregnant. There are eight blank folios at the end of the notebook. Much of the material in this notebook was collected from Duncan...
Dates:
c1872-1893
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected mostly in An Apainn/Appin and Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. A large proportion of the stories and biographical information about Appin was collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, who was known as Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair. Amongst the material collected from Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair are proverbs, sayings, customs, stories about local figures and families and historic anecdotes. The other main...
Dates:
1883 to 1887
Fingal's Cave, Staffa, 1853-1908
Item — Box Box 5 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/C/2/11/14
Scope and Contents
Photographic print showing silhouette view looking south-west out of Fingal's Cave on Staffa. Iona can be seen on the horizon and two people are seen at the left of the cave entrance. Fingal's cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa and is owned in 2018 by the National Trust for Scotland. It became known as Fingal's Cave after the eponymous hero of the epic Ossian series of poems by James Macpherson (1736-1796) . Renowned for its natural acoustics, Felix Mendelssohn visited in...
Dates:
1853-1908
Fingal's Cave, Staffa, 1853-1908
Item — Box Box 5 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/C/2/11/15
Scope and Contents
Photographic print showing a view of Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Dates:
1853-1908
Fingal's Cave, Staffa, 1853-1908
Item — Box Box 5 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/C/2/11/16
Scope and Contents
Photographic print showing a view of Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Dates:
1853-1908
Fingal's Cave, Staffa, 1853-1908
Item — Box Box 5 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/C/2/11/17
Scope and Contents
Photographic print showing a view of Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Dates:
1853-1908
Fingal's Cave, Staffa, 1853-1908
Item — Box Box 5 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/C/2/11/18
Scope and Contents
Photographic print showing a view of Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Dates:
1853-1908