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Musical compositions and other papers of Douglas McPhie.
File
Identifier: Acc.12046
Scope and Contents
Includes additional material.
Dates:
1997-2010, undated.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of and concerning John Corrie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10839
Scope and Contents
Includes poems, songs and correspondence.
Dates:
1918-1954.
Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents
Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert.
Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates:
[Circa 1925]-1987, undated.
Papers of Dr Kenneth Macleod.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9927
Scope and Contents
Includes songs, poems, sermons and correspondence.
Dates:
1906-1955.
Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26490-26560
Scope and Contents
Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.
Dates:
1923-1968, undated.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh, which existed from 1903 to 1947, its object being the collection of Scottish ballads, popular rhymes, proverbs, and the like.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3760-3770
Dates:
1903-1947.
'Poems and songs cheifly (sic) in the Scottish dialect by Charles Lockhart Ramsay [subsequently of Fala], Edinburgh 1816', to which '-1835' has been added in pencil.
Item
Identifier: MS.9046
Scope and Contents
The volume contains ballads headed by dedications to various ladies, letters in verse addressed to various friends, and poems concerning or inspired by political events of the time.
Dates:
1816-1835.
Poems and songs of William MacRitchie, transcribed by George MacRitchie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8119
Dates:
1834.
Poems and songs of William MacRitchie, transcribed by his son, George.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6398
Dates:
1834.
'Poetical Souvenir and Cabinet of Music and Drawing: Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, 1840' containing poetry, mottoes, songs with music, and drawings of Scottish scenery, finely written in a variety of calligraphic hands.
Item
Identifier: MS.8934
Scope and Contents
The choice of shorter poems and the type of ornament suggests some affinity with the work of James Cargill (see MSS.8931-8932), of which it presents a considerable refinement.
Dates:
1840.
Scrapbooks of correspondence and papers of Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach").
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13587
Scope and Contents
Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach", 1860-1928) is the author of `Story and Song from Loch Ness-side` (Inverness 1914) and of a Gaelic poetry collection of his own, `Còinneach `us Coille` (Inverness 1895). After the appearance of his poetry collection he continued to contribute songs composed or edited by himself to newspapers, but these were not subsequently collected into a second volume. He also wrote a large number of articles on Gaelic- and Highland-related matters in journals...
Dates:
1878-ca. 1925
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Series
Identifier: MS.5406
Dates:
1810-1897.
Songs, airs from oratorios, minuets, etc., written out at the end of an imperfect copy of ‘Lessons on the practice of singing, with an addition of the church tunes, in four parts, and a collection of hymns ; canons, airs and catches, for the improvement of beginners', by Cornforth Gilson (Edinburgh, 1759).
Item
Identifier: MS.633
Scope and Contents
On the first end-paper and on the fly-leaves (folios i, ii) there are quotations of poetry about music. The date of the manuscript is probably not much later than the date of publication of the book.
Dates:
[1759, or after.]
The Melrosian Annual, 1888
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13258
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume consisting of essays, short stories, anecdotes and verse contributed by past and present members of staff of the firm of Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers. Many of the contributions are reminiscences of the shop and its customers including Professor John Stuart Blackie, f.198, Edinburgh and society. The volume is illustrated with a few pen and ink drawings.Inscribed W.R.M. on inside front cover. With note at the front affirming that this volume...
Dates:
1888, 1917
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.