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The manuscript is dated page 363 (end of C) 6th November 1807.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...

Scope and Contents The manuscript, watermarked 1801, is inscribed on a flyleaf ‘These four manuscript volumes in folio, of an English and Gaelic Dictionary, is respectfully presented to the Royal Highland Society of Scotland, by Alexr. McLaurin / Edinburgh / 22 July 1814’. On page 97, one of several blank leaves between E and F, is “Tha mise fo sgeith Suidh’ Artair”, 5 stanzas entitled ‘Suidhe Artair’, the author’s thoughts on climbing Arthur’s Seat. Dated page 304 (end of H) August...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...

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The manuscript is watermarked 1806, and is dated page 279 (end of O) 1st March 1809, page 370 (in P) 30th March 1810, page 429 (end of P) 21st April 1810.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...

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The manuscript is watermarked 1806, and is dated page 24 (in S) 19th June 1810, page 237 (end of S) 14th September 1810, page 241 (beginning of T) 15th September 1810, page 347 (end of T) 6th October 1810, page 349 (beginning of UV) 19th October 1810.

2 folios at end have been torn out, thus leaving the text incomplete at Yerk. Contains a sheet of paper bearing the address in London of a John Stewart Esquire (non-scribal hand), and three pressed plants.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...

Scope and Contents Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...

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At Adv.MS.72.2.23, page 458, and Adv.MS.72.2.24, page 549, is the identical subscription: “This English and Gaelic Dictionary consisting of four volumes folio in manuscript half bound was composed by Alexr. McLaurin / Stabler in Edinr. N.B. The English words were taken from Thomas Sheridan’s pronouncing Dictionary in two volumes octavo”. This seems most likely to refer to the edition of the General Dictionary of the English Language published at Dublin in 1784.

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Nhich no case later than 1753 is cited.

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Nhich no case later than 1753 is cited.

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Nhich no case later than 1753 is cited.

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Nhich no case later than 1753 is cited.

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Nhich no case later than 1753 is cited.

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The draft consists largely of material in A-D received too late for inclusion in the appropriate early parts of his published work.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic-English Dictionary (complete) A – Uthar. (Page 1 recto.)(ii) (Left blank by Sir John Foulis). Donald Smith’s hand. ‘Dubhach sinn a Bheinn Ghualann’, 10 quatrains. Entitled “Duan Bheann Ghualann – A Leabhar Bolg tSholaraidh le Brian Ua Réighli ann Cillmhaighnain”. Concludes “This beautiful address opens a Poem on the Subject of an Expedn. from Bein Ghualan to Scotland by the Féini, & is in name of Ossian — but the rest of the...

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The manuscript is based partly on material in Adv.MS.73.3.13, 14, 6, 15, 4 (in that order). Mackintosh MacKay pasted on marginal slips bearing additional material, as he did with Adv.MSS.72.3.13, 72.3.14, 72.3.16, 72.3.17, but not so copiously.

Scope and Contents The Reverend Dr Alexander Irvine began ‘M’ at Little Dunkeld, 23 September 1822 (page 1). ‘N’ was begun 20 March 1823 (page 324), completed (revised?) 1 January 1824 (page 381). Mackintosh Mackay began work on ‘M’ 9 February 1826 (flyleaf), ‘N’ 27 April 1826 (page 324).The dictionary was scrutinised by the Reverend Dr John MacLeod and by independent assessors; these appear to have been the Reverend Dr Thomas Fleming, Archibald Fletcher, Advocate, the Reverend Dr Patrick Graham...

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William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...