Photocopied computer printout from Tiree Met Office.
Monthly rainfall figures for January, February and March 1976-1995.
1997.84.1
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1997.85.1
Photocopied petition to the Duke of Argyll from the widow of Donald MacArthur, Caoles, 1887.
Petition asking for a reduction in rent for a low-lying croft in Caoles and statinng that the petitioner has not attended any Land League meetings or applied to the Crofters Commission.
1997.86.1
Photocopied handwritten letter to Alex. MacIntosh, Caoles `Plea airson a Ghaelic a labhairt pure`.
Tongue-in-cheek letter pleading for pure Gaelic but using many English words, written by Gilleasbuig Lachain.
1997.87.1
Original and photocopied report `Tiriodh agus Colla: A social and economic geolinguistic study` by Clive James, Caernarvon, Wales in 1991.
The numbers of Gaelic speakers in the Hebridean islands in Argyll from 1891 to 1981 focussing on Tiree and Coll and the relationship between economic strength and cultural and linguistic survival.
1997.88.1
Faxed extract from `Eyrbyggja Saga` (pp 129-35) translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards.
The story of Thorgunna, a Hebridean woman in her fifties, who travelled to Iceland and spent the rest of her life there.
1997.88.2
Faxed extract from `The Vinland Sagas` (p 84) translated by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson.
Incomplete chapter teeling how Lief Erikson fell in love with a Hebridean noblewoman called Thorgunna.
1997.89.1
Photocopied notice of Argyll County Council meeting in Dunoon on 4/10/1894 re the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1878.
Meeting to add a number of roads in Tiree to the list of roads, highways and bridges maintained by the council.
1997.89.2
Photocopied Tiree School Board document c. 1919-20
List of schools and teachers, their sex, date of birth, qualifications, post held, date of appointment, salary and tenure, terms and conditions.
1997.89.3
Photocopied extract from Scarinish Public School log book, 27/12/1898 – 13/1/1899.
Low attendance at school because of the stormy weather.
1997.89.4
Laminated photocopy of transcript of petition from the crofters of Kilmoluaig to the County Clerk, 7/12/1903.
Determination of the crofters of Kilmoluaig to refuse to pay the County Assessments until the township road is dressed by the Council.
