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Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates: 1860 to c1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1865-1886

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing mainly Fenian songs and cattle charms. Most of the charms relate to cattle and working in the dairy and so are recited for the protection and healing of cattle, although there are some charms for protecting and healing people as well. A number of the charms include the use of medicinal plants, for which there is additional vocabulary. Carmichael also includes charms and customs for predicting marriage partners. Almost all of...
Dates: 1865-1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1885

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected between October 1867 and December 1885. The material dated from 1883 to 1885 was probably written down at source. The notebook is marked as 'No IV' and the inside cover gives his address as 30 Royal Circus, Edinburgh [Dun Eideann] and the date as 16 November 1883. The material transcribed and collected in this notebook includes love songs, religious songs, waulking songs and songs relating to cattle. Much...
Dates: 1883 to 1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104
Scope and Contents Transciption notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The inside front cover is inscribed in ink with 'Bought at Wadebridge Cornwall Dec[ember] 1 1864 p 1/6 A A Carmichael' and the opposite page has 'A A Carmichael' written on it in pencil. The notebook contains Fenian songs or tales mainly collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, some of which are repeated in full or in part. These include 'Laoidh na Muileartaich', 'Duan an Deirg' and 'A' Bhraoin Chaorain'....
Dates: 1864-1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Two placenames 'For Lord Napier', 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/203
Scope and Contents

Two placenames 'For Lord Napier' which are 'Glengaber' and 'Ettri[ck]' [both in Selkirkshire]. No equivalents are given for either placename.

Dates: 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Two stories relating to the hangings in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and accompanying etymological note, 5 August 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/106
Scope and Contents Two stories relating to the hangings in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and accompanying etymological note probably collected from an unnamed 'Orinsay woman' [Orasaigh/Oronsay] who Carmichael had met. The woman told him that that the name of 'La-le-an-tsamhrai' [Latha leth an t-samhraidh] had been changed to 'Laiilleain' [Latha 'Illeathain] because a MacLean had been hanged on that day. The story tells how a MacLean man had been entrusted with a poor woman's only cow for grazing but when her sons...
Dates: 5 August 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Verse about shellfish and accompanying vocabulary note, 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/47
Scope and Contents

Verse about shellfish beginning 'Se n duileasg measg a b fhear' and accompanying vocabulary note, which reads 'Faochagan is barnacle'

Dates: 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Verse beginning 'Dreollain an druis' and accompanying note, c1892

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/93
Scope and Contents

Verse beginning 'Dreollain an druis, Ball buidhe an bois' composed of four lines. The accompanying note reads 'Uir aran tana - nas taine na bonnach.'

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

Verse entitled 'Eolas an Spealaidh' and vocabulary note, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/145
Scope and Contents

Humorous verse entitled 'Eolas an Spealaidh' , which reads 'Cum bogha air do chorp, 'S cum a mach do thiumpan.' The vocabulary note reads 'Tiumpan = the posterior = Deireadh.'

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

Verse entitled 'Oiche Shamhna' and accompanying notes, 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/46
Scope and Contents

Verse entitled 'Oi[dh]che Shamhna' [Halloween] beginning 'Tha mise ga do dheas, A ruaidh roid'. The accompanying note reads 'They had to see their love' and vocabulary added reads 'Gille-toire = Henchman = spy'.

Dates: 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael