Irvine, Alexander, Minister of Little Dunkeld, 1773-1824
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence of Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine., 1802-1808 and undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.14544/1
Scope and Contents
Letters addressed to Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine, and drafts of letters in his own hand. See John Mackechnie, 'Catalogue of Gaelic Manuscripts in selected libraries in Great Britain and Ireland', 2 volumes (Boston 1973), volume 1, page 338, numbers 8-17 (quoted below as Mackechnie).Draft of a letter, 11 October 1808, of Irvine to an unnamed correspondent, mainly reporting on his Ossianic investigations. 2 folios, quarto, partly cross-hatched. Mackechnie, no. 8.Draft of a...
Dates:
1802-1808 and undated.
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Dates:
ca. 1800-1823
Papers of the Irvine Robertson family, the Rev. Alexander Irvine, and the Stewart families of Garth, Kynachan and Drumcharry, with associated papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13156
Scope and Contents
Includes legal documents, correspondence, financial papers, Scottish travel journals, sermons and poetry. The correspondence is particularly of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld, and Col. David Stewart of Garth. Includes several items in Scottish Gaelic.
Dates:
17th-20th centuries.
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