Photocopied book extract from `The Tea Clippers`.
Information about the construction and tonnage of the clippers `Taeping` and ` Ariel`.
1997.56.1
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1997.57.1
Photocopied extract from unkown book about church ministers with entry about Donald F. McLean..
C.V. for Donald F. McLean.
1997.58.1
Photocopied extract from book `Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900`.
Paragraph about the Free Church in Tiree giving congregation numbers and ministers.
1997.60.1
Photocopied newspaper article `The Island of Tiree` by A MacLean Sinclair
Newspaper article by A MacLean Sinclair containing three stories of Tiree: (1) How Neil MacFadyen and Donald MacLean were seized by the crew of a French brig and forced to pilot the ship to Lochnanuagh where Prince Charlie and 130 of his followers embarked for France, (2) An attempt to trace the ancestry of Dr James MacLean of Balephuill from Hector Roy, ninth laird of Coll, (3) Biographical information about the Rev. John Sinclair from the Gott area.
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1997.61.1
Photocopied newspaper article `Faidhean is faidhean-breige` by Niall M. Brownlie.
Article in Gaelic about seers and prophets, in particular John MacLean (iain Mac Eachainn Bhain) of Hough.
1997.61.2
Handwritten translation into English of article in the Scotsman `Faidhean is faidhean-breige` by Niall Brownlie.
English translation of article in the Scotsman (1997.61.1) about the prophet John MacLean of Hough.
1997.62.1
Photocopied newspaper article `Tiree Folk Still Recall the Great China Tea Race` by A. M Kempsell.
Article about the Great China Tea Race of 1866, the winner of which the `Taeping` was captained by Tiree man Donald MacKinnon.
1997.63.1.1
Photocpy of two newspaper articles `Thank you, Tiree!` and `The Late Captain Allan Campbell, Scarinish`.
(1) Letter to the editor of the People`s Journal by T. Henry Ruddich from near Carlisle who stayed on holiday at `Seaside`, Vaul. He praises Tiree as a holiday destination and includes a four-verse poem. (2) Obituary for Allan Campbell of Deobedal, Scarinsh.
1997.64.1
Photocopied newspaper article `The doctor whose name lives on in Argyll school annals`.
Obituary for Dr Catherine Brown, daughter of Baptist minister Alexander Brown from Tiree.
1997.65.1
Photocopied newspaper article `As a legend of the sea slips o`er the horizon` by Don Whyte.
Memories of the ferry `Lochearn` about to leave Caledonian MacBrayne for the Mediterranean.