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Newspaper cutting `Last call for the corncrake?` by Robin Page, with photocopies.
Article about the falling numbers of corncrakes in Britain, the author`s visit to Tiree in 1989, and the recommendation that Tiree is declared an Environmentally Sensitive Area to protect the corncrakes` habitat.
Newspaper cutting of photograph of Mairi Lyndsay Campbell and the Princess Royal, with photocopy.
Mairi Lyndsay Campbell of Cornaigbeg presenting a bouquet to the Princess Royal outside the Alan Stevenson Centre, Hynish in June 1991 (see photo E116).
Handwritten letter dated 17/11/1915 from John (surname unknown) to his mother, with photocopy.
Letter to a mother during World War I from her son who has recently been called up after applying for a temporary surgeon`s commission in Navy.
Incomplete letter from Rev. Guthrie, a Free Church minister who lodged at Corrairigh, Cornaigbeg, with photocopy.
Incomplete letter describing author`s holidays in Fort William, a taxi journey to the boat in Oban, news of family, friends and acquaintances.
Magazine `Piping Times`, Vol. 6, No. 3, December 1953, with photocopy.
Articles on pipers, pipe bands and competitions.
Magazine cutting `The Isles of Sunshine` by Mary Paulin.
Descriptions of Coll and Tiree mentioning the changing popoulation of Tiree, the crofting community, bulb growing, birds, Dun Mor Vaul and the weather. Black and white photographs of the Tiree Pipe Band at Coll Agricultural Show and Scarinish, Tiree.
Handwritten poem `On the death of A. C. McArthur` by Agnes Alexander, with photocopy.
Five verse poem extolling the qualities of A. C. McArthur, subtitled `Obit Sept 3rd 1936`.
Handwritten poem `Trip to Tiree` by Angus MacIver, with photocopy.
Humorous poem about visiting Tiree wtitten in 1952.
Photocopied book extract `Norse settlement patterns in Coll and Tiree` by Anne Johnston.
Evolution of Norse colonial settlements in Coll and Tiree.
Photocopy of doctoral thesis `Norse settlement in the Inner Hebrides, ca 800-1300` by Anne Johnston. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/8764276.pdf
Norse colonial settlement in The Inner Hebridean isalnds of Mull, Coll, Tiree and Lismore, with bibliography and comments on the thesis by Reg Knapman, Kenovay.
