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Description of the Miùghlaigh/Mingulay schoolhouse describing its dimensions, furniture, household goods and some books. Carmichael writes, 'His house is about 30 F[eet] x 13 []feet]. It was built by the natives and is most rude and primitive. Ab[out] 18 f[eet] of this is the scholroom. The other end is the teacher's...Floor in ruts and hollows and roof just suf[ficiently] high to allow a tall man to stand upright without touching the centre rafters.'

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Topics discussed include: potential purchase of a word processor; furniture; rent; the Social Work Department grant; the University of Edinburgh Nightline; a training weekend focusing on gay relationships; relationships within the team and relationships between the team and other agencies; painting of the telephone room; young people project; job allocation; and the cost of producing a banner.

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Visitors' book, National Health Services file, and finance file.

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Note which reads 'Two of the chairs of Statean at Locheitive' [Loch Etive, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

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Recto: photograph showing Alan Greenwood, Dr Fraps and Mrs Fraps on a bench in the garden of the Cosmos Club, Washington DC; photograph of an unidentified house, presumably where Greenwood was staying.

Verso: two photographs of a house interior, presumably where Greenwood was staying.

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Recto: two photographs of a house interior showing an office and a glass cabinet of shells.

Verso: two photographs showing a bureau with a clock on top and a bedroom with a Dalmatian dog on top of the bed.

This house is possibly where Alan Greenwood was staying on his trip to America.

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Recto: photograph of a bedroom and of a portion of a staircase.

Verso: captioned 'New Poultry Research Centre in course of erection, Autumn 1949', with photographs not present.

This house is possibly where Alan Greenwood was staying on his trip to America.

Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Donl Gorm Sleibhteach' [Dòmhnall Gorm Slèibhteach, Donald Gorm MacDonald of Sleat] and accompanying song probably collected in Barraigh/Isle of Barra. The song begins 'Bha mi raoir an tul[lach] re[idh], 'S tha mi in thall a fhein a noc[hd]' and the story tells of how the ghosts of Donald Gorm and his sixteen kinsmen were due to visit Donald Gorm's son, who was a bad man. An old man advised him to turn all the chairs upside down and place pine candles around the table or he...

Scope and Contents Story relating to the shipwreck of the vessel 'Harmony', possibly collected from Roderick MacLellan, receiver of wrecks, Barraigh/Isle of Barra. The story is fragmented but appears to dispute an account put forward by Capt Grey [Captain Thomas Gray] about local people looting the wreck and opinions such as 'The inhabiti[ants] of Lewis like those of other islands immoral' [Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis]. A quote from 'Charles O' Malley, The Irish Dragoon' which precedes a tale about the wreck...

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Vocabulary note which reads 'Sasag = a straw chair like the fourth of a barrel cut out of it.'