Arran Buteshire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 04 September 1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L361
Scope and Contents
Letter, 4 September 1893, Biggar, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. Thanking Miss Weisse for sending Tovey a treatise on Music by Dannreuther. Holograph signed, with stamped envelope.
Dates:
04 September 1893
Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 10 September 1898
Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L506
Scope and Contents
Letter, 10 September 1898, Arran, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. Requesting that Miss. Weisse send a manuscript to Tovey. Typescript copy.
Dates:
10 September 1898
Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 22 September 1898
Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L507
Scope and Contents
Letter, 22 September 1898, Arran, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. Description of Tovey's time in Arran and thanking Miss. Weisse for shirts and money. Typescript copy.
Dates:
22 September 1898
Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L559
Scope and Contents
Letter, [1901], Arran, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. Details of Tovey's variations at the end of a piano quartet and notes on his composition. Holograph signed.
Dates:
c1901
Minute Book No II, 27 August 1840 - 04 June 1842
Item — Volume MS 2917.2: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/2
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing minutes of meetings. These include: details of membership including those which attended each meeting and the financial affairs of the Society. Annual reports for 1840 and 1841 are included and summarise the society's activities and finances for the year. Lists of names and addresses of all members are included. Geological questions discussed and conclusions reached are minuted. 4 meetings were spent discussing "Is the glacier theory of Agassiz applicable to...
Dates:
27 August 1840 - 04 June 1842
Notebooks on the geology of Arran and Skye, 1851-1853
Series
Identifier: Coll-74/2
Scope and Contents
The Notebooks on the geology of Arran and Skye series consists of:
- Diary of time spent on Arran (1851)
- Account of the 'Liasic district of Skye' (1853)
Dates:
1851-1853
Story entitled 'Alastair Arranach agus Alastair Auinn', 5 August 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/107
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Alastair Arranach agus Alastair Auinn' which tells how Uistean Mor Mag Onail and MacLeod were travelling together and they met a woman in Arran with whom they both slept. She had twins but did not know who was the father of them so it was decided that the first son had been fathered by Uistean Mor who had slept with her first and the second by MacLeod. They boys were raised separately but the first time they met was when one was trying to push a boat into the water and the...
Dates:
5 August 1870