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Commonplace books, note books and song collections, partly in Gaelic, of Frances Tolmie, Rev. Alexander McDonald Cornfute Tolmie and John Tolmie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14025
Content Description
A collection of nine notebooks containing songs in English and Gaelic, newspaper cuttings especially on Highland and Gaelic subjects, poetry and notes on a variety of subjects. The collection was preserved by John Tolmie, oldest son of the Rev. John William Tolmie (1831-1886, minister of Bracadale and Contin). John Tolmie, who compiled four volumes in the collection, was a nephew of Frances Tolmie, collector of Gaelic songs. Two further volumes belonged to Frances Tolmie herself, and...
Dates:
1885-1915 and undated
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents
Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates:
1882-1930, undated.
Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.
File
Identifier: MS.14958
Scope and Contents
Includes some cuttings and proofs.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
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
Verse and prose writings, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings of Domhnall R MacGillemhoire/Donald R Morrison of Scalpay, Isle of Harris.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.358- is now Acc.12363.
Dates:
1951-2002.
Verse and prose writings, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings of Domhnall R MacGillemhoire/Donald R Morrison of Scalpay, Isle of Harris.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12363
Dates:
1954-2002.