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Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 117 Collections and/or Records:

Postcard to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Sophie Weisse, c1900

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1930
Scope and Contents

Postcard, [n.d], Surrey, Sophie Weisse to Donald Tovey. Asking Tovey if anything is wrong, after Mr. Forbes has suggested Tovey is working too hard. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Postcard to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 16 August 1905

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L602
Scope and Contents

Postcard, 16 August 1905, Marlow, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. News of how Tovey is feeling. Holograph signed.

Dates: 16 August 1905
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

References for books on natural history, 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/62
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References for books on natural history which reads 'See Dean Munro on F[ield] vole. Culpepper on horse shoe plant. Reeves on iodh.'

Dates: 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a cow's illness being transferred to a woman, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/136
Scope and Contents Story about a cow's illness being transferred to a woman probably collected in Barraigh/Isle of Barra, in which a girl herding cows notices that one of her cows is swollen. A passing traveller advises her to put a sample of the cow's urine in a bottle, to put a cork in the bottle and never remove it. She did this. A woman was seeking help for her mother who was swollen and likely to die and was only cured of her illness once the bottle was uncorked. The cow got better after this too. The...
Dates: September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a trip made by mother and child, c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/91
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Story about a trip made by mother and child, which would appear to have been copied from another source, in which the mother 'burst a blood vessel of the stomach' while in London and although her condition was precarious at first she recovered, returned home and travelled with her adult child 'a good deal in Glencoe and various other places enjoying ourselves very much' returning home 'greatly refreshed' [Gleann Comhann, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: c1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about sea-cattle and accompanying custom, 20 January 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/155
Scope and Contents

Story telling how a woman in Crocantorran [Cnoc an Torrain/Knockintorran, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] who had a little child saw cattle eating seaweed on a snowy day. She thought they were eating it because of the snow and so she followed them and got a fright when she saw them go into the sea to the extent that she was ill for a month. It was said that if a handful of earth is thrown on sea cattle they 'cant forsake the land'.

Dates: 20 January 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Three stories about crodh-mara [sea-cattle] and the MacDonalds, 18 January 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/135
Scope and Contents Three stories collected from John MacKinnon, Cairinis/Carinish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist about crodh mara or sea-cattle and the MacDonalds. The first story tells how Mac Dhonuil Dui lived in a house 200 yards west of Teampull na Trionaid with his wife but they had no family or cattle. MacDonald Dubh fell ill and every morning and evening a cow 'bo mhaol bhui[dhe]' visited them to be milked but was never seen between times. One day, while milking the wife spilt milk and cursed the cow and...
Dates: 18 January 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael