Fires
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Note about 'Gradan' [a fire] and the Duke of Argyll, c1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/32
Scope and Contents
Note about 'Gradan' [a fire] and the Duke of Argyll that he said that the Highlanders burnt the straw but notes that Argyll was 'mistaken in this as in many other things regarding his countrymen.'
Dates:
c1893