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Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/44
Scope and Contents
Charm entitled 'An t-Altacha Leapa' [An t-Altachadh Leapa] beginning ' An ainm an Ath[air] sa Mh[ic] san Sp[ioraid N[aoimh]' collected from Donald Macintire [MacIntyre], also known as Donul mac Neill, age 84, Howbeag, South Uist [Tobha Beag/Howbeg, Uibhist a Deas] in the midst of his story about the visit of the Duke of Tarentum. A comment at the end of the song states, 'Duke Tar[en]t[um] middle sized clear mind[ed] smart man high sight', which is followed by a comment in a different pencil....
Dates:
6 April 1877
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/139
Scope and Contents
Charm entitled 'Eolas Na Sul' [Eòlas Na Sùl] collected from [Mrs] MacKenzie, Tosdag, Applecross, [Tòghscaig/Toscaig, A' Chomraich, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] beginning 'Bior bruid An aod[-] creag'. The note describes MacKenzie as 'a nice intelligent woman who learnt this from the father of her husband - John MacKenzie Tosdag, crofter'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
17 September 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/135
Scope and Contents
Charm entitled 'Sgucha feithe' [Charm for Bursting Vein] collected from John Fraser, Balgay, Shieldeag, [Balgaidh/Balgy, Sìdeag/Shieldaig, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] crofter, age 69 beginning 'Chai[dh] C[riosda] air muin eich'. Carmichael describes John Fraser as a 'big man tall and handsome with a fine honest face - must have been powerful man in his day'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
17 September 1909
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing field and transcribed material. The notebook is inscribed on the front inside cover with the following: 'Scrap Book MS No1 Alex[ander] Carmichael (of Lismore) Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist] 1864'. On the recto side of the fly leaf is written 'Angus MacDonald Staoinebrig tale teller' and on the verso side of the fly leaf is written 'Bought at Drew's Saint columb Cornwall this 17 day of Nov[ember] 1864 A. A. Carmichael p2/3'....
Dates:
1864-1867
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
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates:
1874, 1877 and 1891
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122
Scope and Contents
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael. Of the thirty-nine folios, eight, at the end of the volume, are blank and there is one insertion which printed. The
Dates:
7 August 1886 to c1890
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/6
Scope and Contents
List of four prayers or charms with details about where, when and from whom they were collected, the items being 'Urnuigh Chadail', 'Eolas an Tairbhin', 'Eolas Beum Sula' and 'Marking the Lamb'.
Dates:
c1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/153
Scope and Contents
List of potential informants of charms including Ruary Maconlish, Duncan Murchison's wife, Isabella Murchison, who are all in Druimbui [An Druim Buidhe/Drumbuie] and have the charm 'Casga Fala'; Mary MacLennan, Earbarsaig [Earbasaig/Erbusaig]; Peggie Finlayson, Druimbui [An Druim Buidhe/Drumbuie]; and Iain Macrath, Strome Ferry [Port and t-Sròim/Stromeferry]. Written at Diurnis [Duirnnis/Duirinish] Lochals[h] [Lochaillse, all places Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. Text has been scored...
Dates:
23 September 1909
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael but also used by John Ewen MacRury. The front cover bears a sticker which reads 'Gaelic Notes 1894-5. (Collection of traditions, tales, etc. by Alexander Carmichael (?). Many pages cancelled, indicating publication.) [Carmichael Watson Collection]'. The flyleaf reads 'Gaelic Notes, 1894-5' and the rear flyleaf contains a jotting which reads 'Wishing Guidhe'. The beginning of the notebook contains field notes made by Carmichael in Uibhist a...
Dates:
12 September 1890 to 1895
