Handwritten letter from Rev. Hector Cameron, Inverness, to artist Duncan MacGregor-Whyte in 1932, with a Gaelic poem and saying that he is looking forward to seeing him at the 1932 Mod in Fort William.
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Handwritten letter from Rev. Hector Cameron, Inverness, to artist Duncan MacGregor-Whyte in 1932, with a Gaelic poem and saying that he is looking forward to seeing him at the 1932 Mod in Fort William.
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Black and white photograph of Cornaigmore School in 1892.
Cornaigmore School in 1892 with headmaster Hector MacKinnon and two women teachers. Third from right, third row back is Hector Cameron, later a minister and editor of `Na Baird Thirisdeach`.
Poem by the Rev Hector Cameron.
Poem about Tiree by the Rev Hector Cameron and taught to the children of Cornaigmore around 1935.
Black and white photograph of the gravestone of Hector Cameron and his wife Anna MacLean.
The gravestone of Hector Cameron (d. 23/9/1923) and his wife Anna MacLean (d. 28/1/1925) and their children Mairi Anna, Flora, Margaret Christina, the Rev. Hector (co-author of the Tiree & Coll Handbook) and Mairi.
Paperback book `Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree` by Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron.
Illustrated tourist guide to Tiree and Coll with information about the history and archaeology of the islands.
Photocopied newspaper article about Rev. Hector Cameron.
An appreciation by a friend of the late Rev. Hector Cameron, editor of `The Tiree Bards`, who died in 1940.
Hardback book `Na Baird Thirisdeach / The Tiree Bards` edited by Rev. Hector Cameron in 1932. Various names and addresses are handwritten on the inside covers, including “Gifted by Mr Roddy MacEwan, Laxay, Lochs, Isle of Lewis; Joan MacDonald, Glasgow, 1949; Calum Alick MacDonald, Stornoway; Mina Martin, Glasgow 1949; Pte F MacLeod; George MacDonald, Glasgow; Iain MacDonald, Glasgow; Cathie MacDonald, Glasgow; Hector MacDonald, Stornoway.
There are two further copies of this title, one of which has ‘Mrs Kate MacLean, Nelson Ward. L.I.D.G H’ & ‘Kate McLean’ handwritten inside the front cover.
One of the poems, ‘Marbh-rann – An Nochd ’s Luaineach mo Chadal‘, on page 80 of the book, is transcribed below. It is a Gaelic elegy to Mrs Julian Noble composed by John MacLean, Bàrd Thighearna Cholla, in 1843.
This elegy, written in Nova Scotia by John MacLean (Iain Mac Ailein) of Caoles, was considered by Rev. Hector Cameron, the editor of ‘Na Bàird Thirisdeach’, as ‘perhaps the finest in the Gaelic language’.
It was composed in honour of Mrs Julian Noble, the daughter of Colin MacNiven of Greenhill, at the instigation of her bereaved husband, an eminent physician in Cape Breton. Julian, who died leaving a young family, was described as ‘comely in person and beautiful in character’.
The inscription on her tombstone in Whycocomagh reads: ‘Sacred to the memory of the lamented Julian Noble, wife of John Noble, surgeon. She was born in Tiree, Argyllshire, Scotland, and died 1st June, 1843, in the 38th year of her age.’