Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 6/11/1891.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 6/11/1891 to the Duke`s chamberlain about a petition from Neil Kennedy, Moss, about the purchase of a house.
2002.188.13
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2002.188.14
Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 20/3/1893.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 20/3/1893 to the Duke`s chamberlain about assistance to roof Archibald MacLean`s house in Cornaigbeg, the selling of a cottar`s house in Balephuil to pay for funeral expenses and another cottar family setting up residence in a byre in Balevullin.
2002.188.15
Photocopied letter from Edinburgh solicitors Lindsay Howe & Co dated 20/3/1893 to the Duke of Argyll`s chamberlain.
Advice about the selling of a cottar`s house in Balephuil by relatives of the deceased and a family of cottars setting up residence in a byre in Balevullin.
2002.188.16
Photocopied letter from Edinburgh solicitors Lindsay Howe & Co dated 12/4/1893 to the Duke of Argyll`s chamberlain.
Advice re the demolition of the house of deceased cottar Flora Lamont in Balephuil.
1998.153.1.1
Audio cassette recording of (a) the opening ceremony at Tur Mhic Chaluim and (b) Hugh MacDonald, Kenovay recorded by Margaret MacKay of the School of Scottish Studies.
Audio recording of Side A – the opening ceremony at Tur Mhic Chaluim on 26/7/1986 with introduction by Alec MacArthur, Ronald MacDonald of Cornaigbeg talking about 19th century emigration, Neil Brownlie and Prof. Donald Meek talking about the Rev. Donald MacCallum, and Hugh Archie MacLean of Salum talking about the way forward for crofters today, Side B – The late Hugh MacDonald of Kenovay talks to Margaret MacKay of the School of Scottish Studies about his piping days.
1999.17.1
Two photocopied extracts from Volume III of the evidence taken by the Napier Commission, pp 2128-82.
One bound and one unbound transcript of the evidence given by the crofters and cottars in Tiree.
1997.146.2
Photocopied notice by factor Lachlan MacQuarie dated 1855 restricting the consumption of alcoholic spirits.
Notice by factor Lachlan MacQuarie dated 16/11/1855 prohibiting tenants paying less than £30 rent from drinking alcholic spirits at any public gatherings on pain of dispossession.
1997.146.3
Photocopied list of removings in Tyree for Whitsunday 1872.
List of crofters and cottars to be evicted from their houses on Whitsunday 1872.
1997.120.1
Transcription of the Rental of Tiree for 1743.
List of tenants for each township transcribed from a volume of the Chamberlain`s Accounts in the Argyll papers at Inverary Castle, retaining the original spellings.
1997.130.9
Photocopied extract from `Argyll Estate Instructions`.
Instruction to the chamberlain of Tiry from the Duke of Argyll, October 1801. Subject include redistribution of land, the cessation of peat-cutting on the island, monetary assistance for building houses and for fishing equipment.