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Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 208 Collections and/or Records:

Proverb beginning 'Cha'n fhir mi ri uallach' and accompanying vocabulary note, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/177
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Proverb beginning 'Cha'n fhir mi ri uallach, Cha dean buar/cas luath maor'. The vocabulary note reads 'Furas = Patience'.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Proverb beginning 'Cha'n fhuirich muir ri uallach', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/195
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Proverb beginning 'Cha'n fhuirich muir ri uallach, Cha dean bean luath maorach'. The text is composed of four lines, is written in ink and has been scored through in ink.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Proverb or verse beginning 'Saoghal subh sona dhuibh', August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/24
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Proverb or verse beginning 'Saoghal subh sona dhuibh, Sar cudh fallan slan'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: August 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Quotation beginning 'An aite roiseal is mire', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/200
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Quotation which reads 'An aite roiseal is mire, Tha osnaich ag imeachd mo chleibh' noted as being from Gilleasba na Ceapaich [Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch]'

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Quotation beginning 'He prayeth best who loveth best', c1876

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/89
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Quotation beginning 'He prayeth best who loveth best, All things both great and small' noted as being by Coleridge. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: c1876
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Quotation from a poem by Whittier under the title 'Rune', c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/103
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Quotation from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier under the title 'Rune' beginning 'You find but common bloom and green, The rippling rivers rune'.

Dates: c1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Recent Gaelic poets, 1896

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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/30
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A script for a lecture delivered by Makinnon on 16 March 1896.

Dates: 1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / University lectures

Rhyme about bird calls, 4 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/19
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Rhyme about bird calls including the call of the smeòrach or thrush and the call of the lon-dubh or blackbird.

Dates: 4 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Rhyme about sea creatures, 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/60
Scope and Contents

Rhyme about sea creatures beginning 'Seac[hd] sgadain sa brad[ain] seac[hd] brad[ain] sa roin'. Text has been scored through as if the text has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Rhyme about Shrove Tuesday beginning 'Chiad Dimairt an t-Solus', 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/213
Scope and Contents

Rhyme about Shrove Tuesday beginning 'Chiad Dimairt an t-Solus'. Text has been scored through as if copied elsewhere.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael