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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

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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

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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, c1868 to 16 June 1876

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing primarily songs and stories collected in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Barraigh/Barra, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis. The main informants are Roderick MacNeil or Ruairidh an Rùma from Mingulay and Penelope MacLellan of Ormacleit/Ormaclete. The bulk of the material from MacNeil relates to the southernmost islands of the Hebrides and covers topics such as bird-fowling, the island way of life, place-names,...
Dates: c1868 to 16 June 1876

Fragment of a song beginning 'Oisein eibhinn a mhic Fhinn', 16 June 1876

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/85
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Fragment of a song collected from Christina MacInnes [Cairistiona nighean Dùghaill] beginning 'Oisein eibhin[n] a mhic Fhinn, A Loaich fhaoilidh bu mhor pris'. A fragmentary note accompanying it seems to indicate a man who has the full song. The note reads 'Donul Curri [Donald Currie] S[outh] Lochboisdale [Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] whom see -'.

Dates: 16 June 1876

Hymn beginning 'Fhir a chruthaich fhir a chriu' and accompanying note, 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/18
Scope and Contents Hymn beginning 'Fhir a chruthaich fhir a chriu' collected from Captain Alexander Matheson, shipmaster, Doirni, Ceanntaile [An Dòrnaidh/Dornie, Cinn Tàile/Kintail, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but written at Creagorry [Creag Ghoraidh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] on 11 August 1875. The text has been altered in both pen and pencil including a pencil tick against every verse. The note states that the hymn is 'obscure and evidently imperfect' and that Captain Matheson heard it from an old...
Dates: 1883

Song beginning 'Chai an conn Gun deach an conn an cuil', 16 June 1876

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/84
Scope and Contents

Song collected from Cairistina nin Duil [Cairistiona nighean Dùghaill or Christina MacInnes], Creagorry [Creag Ghoraidh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] beginning 'Chai an conn Gun deach an conn an cuil'. The song is composed of forty-five lines and it appears as if lines three and four have been missed out. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. Cairistiona is noted as 'Bean bhoc[hd] a bhios sniomh dhan mhnaoi agam'.

Dates: 16 June 1876

Song beginning 'Gheall mo lean dhomh sgial bheag', November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/33
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Gheall mo lean[nan] dhomh sgial bheag, A ghean a meanghan goid'. The song text has written transversely across is 'Trans[cribed] into No II B[ook] p. 125 A.A.C. Creagorry 8 October 1875' [Creag Ghoraidh/Creagorry, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: November 1873

Song beginning 'Hi'm ba m bo chaileach', c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/21
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Hi'm ba m bo chail[l]each, Cuir an crogan du[bh] eir teine'. Text has been written over with 'Trans[cribed] B[ook] II p[age] 166 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael] Creagorry 8 Oct 1875'. [Creag Ghoraidh/Creagorry, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: c1872

Song beginning 'Ho bobarra dirdearra', 30 October 1872 and 5 October 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/115
Scope and Contents

Song collected from Aonas Currie [Angus Currie], Ardnamona, Iocar [Àird na Monadh, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Ho bobarra dirdearra, Seach an stuirst'. The song is composed of sixteen lines and has a number of annotations. The text has been scored through in two different inks and wirtten transversely across the text is 'Transcribed B[ook] III p.199 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael] Creagorry 5 October 1875.' [Creag Ghoraidh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: 30 October 1872 and 5 October 1875

Song beginning 'Oidhche dhomh san an tar leam', September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/93
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Oidhche dhomh san an tar leam, An cuir nan oighear glana'. The song is composed of thirty-four lines. The text has been scored through and written over it transversely in ink is 'Transcribed B[ook] III p. 195 A[lexander] A[rchibald] Carmichael Creagorry 3 Oct[ober] 1875' [Creag Ghoraidh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: September 1872

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MacInnes, Christina or Chirsty, c1807-1894 5
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Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 2
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Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1
Carmichael, Duncan, fl1870 (Lismore | Argyllshire) 1
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MacLeod, Flora, -1886 (Fionnaghal | Staoinebrig | South Uist) 1
MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 1
MacNeil, Marion, 1843-1927 1
MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 1
MacPhee, Ann, 1847-1905 (or Ann MacKinnon | wife of Archibald MacKinnon, crofter | Carnan | South Uist) 1
MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 1
MacQuilken, Duncan (builder of the first mill on South Uist) 1
Matheson, Alexander, Captain, c1833-1897 (shipmaster and collator of the Dornie manuscripts | Dornie | Kintail) 1
Moluag, Saint, c530-592 (patron saint of Argyll) 1
Morrison, John, c1811-1888 (ground officer | Lingreabhagh | Isle of Harris) 1
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Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1
Surname-Unknown, c1550 (a MacLea or Livingstone Baron) 1
Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company. Wheeler and Wilson Company (1852-1907) 1
Wylie, John, c1600 (Fife settler | Stornoway | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 1
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