Hardback book `Family Homespun` by Blanche E. C. Dugdale.
The family life of three great houses – Inverary, Whittingehame and Hatfield.
2007.49.1
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Associated People: Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll George, Tiree (1823 - 1900)
2001.158.2
Photocopied book extract from `George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll` edited by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, pp 133-147, 285-6, 321, 508 & 633.
Extracts about the landscape of Tiree, its people and surroundings seas, Skerryvore lighthouse, the potato famine and emigration, some local birds and bird-shooting.
2001.75.3
Photocopied letter to the Duke of Argyll from Lachlan MacQuarrie dated 22/12/1863 (Bundle 1541).
Letter to the Duke of Argyll from Lachlan MacQuarrie dated 22/12/1863 about the souterrain at Greenhill.
2001.75.4
Photocopied letter to the Duke of Argyll from Rev John G. Campbell dated 13/1/1862 (Bundle 1540).
Letter to the Duke of Argyll from Rev John G. Campbell dated 13/1/1862 about the pay and conditions of the teacher at Kirkapol school and the need for a new building.
2000.159.3
Hardback book `Folk and Hero Tales from Argyllshire (Waifs & Strays of Celtic Tradition II. Argyllshire Series)’ collected, edited and translated by Rev D. MacInnes, with a preface by Lord Archibald Campbell, Duke of Argyll.
Gaelic folk tales collected from shoemaker Archibald MacTavish, Donald MacLachlann and Neil Livingstone, all from Oban, and Donald MacGregor from Lismore.
1999.191.15
Photocopied letter to the editor of the Times from the Duke of Argyll dated 27/7/1886.
Letter to the editor of the Times from the Duke of Argyll dated 27/7/1886 correcting an error in article which stated that notices of ejection were issued for non-payment of rent rather than because of violent seizure of land occupied by other tenants.
1999.191.16
Photocopied newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters.
newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters.
1999.191.17
Photocopied newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters.
Article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters and their impending arrest by Royal Marines.
1999.191.18.1
Photocopied newspaper article and letter about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters, 1886
Newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters, and letter to the editor from D. H. MacFarlane about the injustice of the Duke of Argyll`s policy of land consolidation which pushed smallholders of the land.
1999.191.19.1
Photocopied newspaper article and letter about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters, 1886
Newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters and the arrival of the Royal Marines on board HMS Ajax in Oban, and letter to the editor from the Duke of Argyll disagreeing with point of view put by D. H. MacFarlane.