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Manuscript of English-Gaelic vocabulary compiled by a blinded veteran of the 92nd (Gordon) Regiment, Malcolm MacPherson, at Bridge of Teith, Doune, Perthshire, and written for him by another.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.6
Dates:
1812.
Manuscript of Ossianic poems written by various anonymous hands from recitation of Archibald Fletcher (born circa 1734), Achallader, Argyll.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.24
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1798, and is described by John Francis Campbell (‘Leabhar na Feine’, page xvi) ‘as genuine a bit of folk lore as any in the world’.Archibald Fletcher’s affidavit, sworn before Archibald Menzies, Justice of the Peace, in Edinburgh, 1801, is printed in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 270. It lists the tradition-bearers from whom he learned the poems. Menzies states that Fletcher could write his name, but was unable to read the manuscript, which is...
Dates:
[1798, or after.]