Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, which he used to collect material mainly from a Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra and Margaret Campbell née Stewart and her husband Andrew, tinkers at Bohespic, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire. There are twenty folios the first fourteen of which contain text. Most of the material was collected from Mary MacRae, who sang several waulking songs and...

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Vocabulary and placename notes probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, for 'Bun-dearg' and 'Bun-dubh' both 'Cut fern clalk for thatch' and accompanying place-name note for 'Beinn Chinndearg' [possibly Maol Chinn Dearg], which is noted as being 'ab[ou]t 16 miles along the road side.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.