Friendship
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Baillie
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Befriending Team Correspondence Vol[ume] 1, 2 Jan 1974 - 29 May 1978
File
Identifier: GD61/4/1/1
Scope and Contents
Comprises of correspondence sent and received by the Scottish Minorities Group's (SMG) Befriending Team, which includes:Correspondence from clients to the Befriending Team asking for information and advice, contacts for external services; and arranging in-person meetings.Correspondence between members of the Befriending Team about individual cases and administrative issues.SMG correspondence including funding for voluntary organisations and policy decisions,...
Dates:
2 Jan 1974 - 29 May 1978
Befriending Team Correspondence Vol[ume] 2, Jun 1978 - 22 Feb 1979
File
Identifier: GD61/4/1/2
Scope and Contents
Comprises of correspondence sent and received by the Scottish Minorities Group's (SMG) Befriending Team, which includes:Correspondence between clients and the Befriending Team providing information and advice, and contacts for external services.Correspondence between members of the Befriending Team and from prospective members.SMG correspondence, including funding applications to the Social Work Committee.Correspondence between the Befriending...
Dates:
Jun 1978 - 22 Feb 1979
Custom entitled 'Goisteachd' and 'Blood Brotherhood', 9 January 1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/70
Scope and Contents
Custom written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Goisteachd' and additionally entitled 'Blood Brotherhood' by Alexander Carmichael. MacRury recalls how if two boys drew blood while playing then one would put blood on the back of the hand of the other and say 'roinn [rinn] mi goisteachd riut' and that would mean that they 'were friends in all plays henceforth', although frequently the bond was short-lived MacRury remarks 'there was something in it as the...
Dates:
9 January 1895
De Spirituali Amicitia [incomplete] by Aelred of Rievaulx
part
Identifier: MS 89/f. 89r
Contents
This section of the manuscript contains an extract of De Spirituali Amicitia (On Spiritual Friendship), a treatise that refers to Cicero’s De Amicitia and proposes that Christ is the ultimate source of spiritual friendship. It was written by Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167), an English Cistercian monk, abbot of Rievaulx, and prolific writer.Contents...
Dates:
12th-14th century
Note about 'Am Muilear Beag', 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/174
Scope and Contents
Note probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about 'Am Muilear Beag' that he must have been the miller of Innerfola [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and at [the Battle of] Culloden and that 'Carmichaels [were] great cronies of Innernahyles [Stewarts] - his leine chneis' [leine-chneis or leine-chnois 'confidant']. Also notes that the word 'fonnag' means a small man.
Dates:
1883
Note about Eas nan Ùig, August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/125
Scope and Contents
Note about Eas nan Ùig [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyll], that Carmichaels were buried there; that the MacLaurins [MacLarens] of Duror and the MacColls of Glaisdrum [Glasdrum] fought there; that Donul nan Ord [Dòmhnall nan Òrd] hid there and that the Carmichaels and Stewarts were 'bosom friends' or 'lèine-chneis'.
Dates:
August 1883
Poem about two friends who were separated and accompanying story, 1877
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/77
Scope and Contents
Poem beginning 'Dàcheann a dh'fàg an t-earrachal', with a note on vocabulary and the background story of two good friends, Iain ic Fhearchair [John MacCodrum] and Mac Aonas Gheobha [Mac Aonghais Ghobha] who went out on the moor, lost each other, one ending up on 'moineach Ebhall' [Eabhal/Eaval, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] and the other on 'Cill-èirebhagh, Beinn am faothla' [Cill Eirebhagh/Kilerivagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. The poem is composed of four lines.
Dates:
1877
Proverb beginning 'Is e deireadh cairdeis sgaoileadh', 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/199
Scope and Contents
Proverb which reads 'Is e deireadh cairdeis sgaoileadh is e deireadh comuinn dealachaidh.'
Dates:
1894
Story about the theft of a corpse, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/147
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Hector MacLeod, aged 85, at Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Lionacleit/Linaclate, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, telling how a woman from the MacCormaig family in Killpheadair [Cille Pheadair/Kilpheder, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] went to work at Balranald [Baile Raghnaill, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] and got married there. Not long after she married she fell ill and died. When her wake folk were resting her friends 'who came in g[rea]t force' took away her corpse but they were...
Dates:
20 January 1871
The Friendships of Jesus, c1912-c1955
Item
Identifier: BAI 1/4/1/10
Scope and Contents
Undated lecture by John Baillie, discussing the friendships Jesus made (such as with the Disciples) in the context of other Biblical friendships and friendship in general.
Dates:
c1912-c1955