Love
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Baillie
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
Livre de Raison (Commonplace book)
Collection — Box CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1854
Content Description
This outlandish and colourful manuscript volume is an exceptional resource to understand and study French popular culture in the late 18th-early 19th centuries. Its contents are extremely varied, and include poems, oracles, lyrics of popular songs, proverbs and maxims, recipes, legal document templates, a formulary of letters, calendars, little stories and anecdotes, an account of Napoleon's return to France after his exile on Elba, and a dictionary for the interpretation of dreams. It refers...
Dates:
c 1820-1830
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 12 September 1890 to 1895
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael but also used by John Ewen MacRury. The front cover bears a sticker which reads 'Gaelic Notes 1894-5. (Collection of traditions, tales, etc. by Alexander Carmichael (?). Many pages cancelled, indicating publication.) [Carmichael Watson Collection]'. The flyleaf reads 'Gaelic Notes, 1894-5' and the rear flyleaf contains a jotting which reads 'Wishing Guidhe'. The beginning of the notebook contains field notes made by Carmichael in Uibhist a Deas/South...
Dates:
12 September 1890 to 1895
Notebook containing notes on Gaelic love songs, 1902
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/3/1/1
Scope and Contents
Marked 'Mackinnon A10' and noted thus in previous historical records. This appears to be notes in preparation for, or a draft of, a paper on love songs in the Gaelic song tradition.
Dates:
1902
Notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1856-1880
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael made up of three excise notebooks marked 'Journal', 'Account Current' and 'Bills Receivable'/'Bills Payable' and a single folio. The first book is marked on the front with 'Carbost June 13 1861 Alexander Carmichael' [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye].The second book is inscribed with the same text on the front cover and the inside front covers reads 'Alasdair A Mac 'Illemhicheil Cillendraisd, Liosmor' [Cill Anndrais/Killandrist, Lios...
Dates:
1856-1880
Phrase which reads 'Nuair bha mise tor air Tomas gha mi gaol', 24 June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/126
Scope and Contents
Phrase which reads 'Nuair bha mise tor air Tomas gha mi gaol' collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann].
Dates:
24 June 1887
[Poem] beginning 'An gille gun fhoill', 23 September 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/155
Scope and Contents
[Poem] beginning 'An gille gun fhoill'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
23 September 1909
Poem beginning 'La dhomhs' sinn siubhal fasaich', c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/131
Scope and Contents
Poem beginning 'La dhomhs' sinn siubhal fasaich', La dhomh dol thun na h-airi[dh]'. The poem consists of five lines.
Dates:
c1875
Poem beginning 'The withered elm again may flourish', 23 June 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/283
Scope and Contents
Poem beginning 'The withered elm again may flourish'.
Dates:
23 June 1885
Saying from Tarasaigh/Taransay, 7 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/8
Scope and Contents
Saying from Tarasaigh/Taransay which reads 'Creagalconas us Croc togal [Knock Togal] do chroc is son a san Aird Marsin us Heireval [Àird Mhànais and Hearrabhal] ghaol ach far am bi na daoine tamh'.
Dates:
7 July 1870
Song beginning 'A Mhor a bhinneag bheil u noc airson na coine' and accompanying note, October 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/114
Scope and Contents
Song beginning 'A Mhor a bhinneag bheil [th]u noc[hd] airson na coine' and accompanying note which tells how two lovers were to meet but she never showed up and he thought she had died so he went wandering and one day turned up at her house singing the song. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
October 1872