Photocopied extracts from book `Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland` by John Gregorson Campbell.
Tales and traditions collected entirely from oral sources by John Gregorson Campbell, minister of Tiree from 1861-91.
Photocopied book extract `Emigration, Social Change and Economic Recovery: the Isle of Tiree, 1760-1890` by T. M. Devine.
The effects of the increase in population, fragmentation of croft holdings and the potato famine on Tiree.
Photocopy of book extract `Parish of Tiry` by Rev. Archibald McColl.
Description of the geography of Tiree, its wildlife, minerals, antiquities, climate, diseases, population, fuel, manufactures and fishery, livestock, agriculture, the character and customs of the people, the poor, schools, emigration, ferries, churches.
Booklet `The Changing Role of the House of Argyll in the Scottsih Highlands` by Eric Cregeen.
Assessment of the role of the house of Argyll in the Highlands between 1680 and 1806. Front cover inscribed `With best wishes, Eric Cregeen`.
Information and maps of the Hough area, 1768-1805
(1) Extract from `Inhabitants of the Argyll Estate, 1779`, ed. Eric Cregeen, 1963, p139 : Index of Places. (2) Partial map 1768-9 showing Hough area extracted from `Argyll Estate Instructions, 1771-1805` ed. Eric Cregeen, 1964. (3) Hough area from O/S map NL 94 NW.
Photocopy of document `Descriptions of Tiree` by various authors, covering a period of 400 years.
Short extracts from 20 books describing various aspects of Tiree.
Extract from `Comhlan Dannsa nan Eileanach` – `The First Quadrille`
Seven descriptions from various sources of how to dance a quadrille.
Extract from `Na Baird Thirisdeach` re James MacFarlane, Balemartine
Extract from `Na Baird Thirisdeach` re James MacFarlane, Balemartine (whose forename should be William), the father of four ministers.
Bound extract of `Parish of Tiree and Coll` by Rev. N Maclean from `The Second Statistical Account of Scotland Vol VII`.
An account of the topography of Tiree and Coll, their natural and civil history, population, industries and parochial economies.
Photocopied extract from RCAHMS `Argyll` re Old Parish Church and Burial-ground, Soroby and drawing of Balinoe Church where Robert Maxwell MacFarlane once lived.
Photocopied extract from RCAHMS `Argyll` re Old Parish Church and Burial-ground, Soroby and drawing of Balinoe Church where Robert Maxwell MacFarlane once lived.
