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Autograph notebook of poems, largely unpublished, by Sorley MacLean (1911-1996).

 Item
Identifier: MS.14966
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) “Shaoil mi i bhith fo éislean”, 2 stanzas (folio 1);(ii) “Dh’aontaich mo reusan ‘s mo chridh”, 10 lines (middle of folio 1);(iii) “‘S tusa Shomhairle ‘chuis-bhurte”, 4 lines (folio 2);(iv) ‘Mo chasan brist aig Alamein’, 4 lines (folio 3);(v) “Oidhche de ‘n dà bhliadhna”, 17 lines. ‘An Trom-laighe’. (‘Spring tide and Neap Tide’, page 129) (folio 5);(vi) “‘S mi ris an neo-dhealgach”, 6...
Dates: 1943.

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

Notebook of a mid-19th century Lady containing knitting and crochet patterns, and Gaelic poetry.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14899
Scope and Contents The notebook, watermarked 1833, is anonymously written from both ends. End ‘A’, paginated 1-121, consists of knitting and crochet patterns based on Gaugain, ‘The knitter’s friend’. Includes ‘The McDonald pattern’ (page 113). End ‘B’ is paginated 1-63, but pages 9-34 have been cut out. Pages 1-55 are in the same hand as end ‘A’, and are catalogued below. Pages 56-63 are in a later hand and contain knitting patterns and recipes.The contents are as follows....
Dates: Mid 19th century.

Papers and Gaelic collections of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.14877-14881
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine of Little Dunkeld (1773-1824), consisting mainly of Gaelic poetry collected in Perthshire, and partly elsewhere, between ca. 1797 and 1808.

Dates: ca. 1797-ca. 1808

Papers of John MacCallum, policeman, Glasgow.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12529
Scope and Contents

Includes Gaelic songs and music.

Dates: circa 1890-1925.