Three pages of photocopied newspaper cuttings about Captain MacKinnon and the Taeping
Three pages of poor photocopies of newspaper articles about Captain MacKinnon (1827-1867) and the Great China Tea Race of 1866.
2001.173.2
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Dates: 1860s
1999.299.2
Paperback book `Clann-Nighean an Sgadan` by Tormod Calum Domhnallach and Leslie Davenport.
The story of the Scottish herring girls in the 19th and early 20th century.
2000.50.5
Paperback book `The Mobile Scot` by Jeanette M. Brock.
A study of Scottish emigration and migration 1861-1911based on a thesis which won the Hume Brown prize for Scottish history.
2000.225.9
Paperback book `Contempt, Sympathy and Romance` by Krisztina Fenyo.
An examination of the attitude of Lowland Scots to Highland Gaels in the 19th century as expressed in the press.
2001.152.1
Copy extract `Nineteenth Century Tiree Emigrant Communities in Ontario` by Margaret MacKay from `Oral History`, Vol. 9, No. 2, Autumn 1981, pp 49-60.
Account of the emigrant communities from Tiree in Ontario from oral and documentary sources.
2001.128.1
Photocopied copy of an agreement dated 22/3/1869 by the tenants of Gott with the tenant of Balephetrish, Tom Barr, about supplying him with seaweed from Saltaig.
2001.74.17
Photocopied handwritten paper by Professor Donald Meek about Rev John Gregorson Campbell.
Handwritten paper by Prof. Donald Meek about Rev John Gregorson Campbell and 19th century Gaelic folklore.
2001.75.2
Photocopied summary of attendance for examinations in Tiree schools for 1862 and 1863 (Bundle 1541).
Summary of attendance for examinations in Kirkapol, Heylipol, Balevullin, Sandaig and Cornaig schools for 1862 and 1863
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.