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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.

Paperback book `Duanagan, Dain is Dualchas`.

Songs, poems, stories and prose from Raasay, Fladda and Eilean Tighe.

Photocopied book extract, pp 73-79 from `Art Rambles in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland` by John T. Reid.

Account of a journey to Coll and Tiree illustrated by the author.

Newspaper cutting `Corncrake impersonator story gets the bird` by Fordyce Maxwell.

Story of moving conrcrake nests from croft to croft so everyone can get the subsidy.

Booklet `Tiree Tales` edited by Fiona MacKinnon.

Twenty-five stories about Tiree in English and Gaelic.