CATALOGUE OF THE ANGUS MACLEOD ARCHIVE Abbreviations: AM – Angus Macleod TGSI – Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness N.D. – No date N.P. – No publisher Personal Papers, Manuscript and Typescript Material, etc. Pairc History MS Book of historical notes, quotations and summaries from Monro, Martin and others. (With 9 MS pages of [Scottish?] history inserted at end). “This Book came into my possession after Rev. Peter Chisholm Gravir and Keose passed away at Keose. It was given to me by a relative of Mr Chisholm but I cannot remember who precisely it was.” [AM] “I do not know who wrote the notes in the Book, but it seems to me there were more than one writer and I do not know if it was Mr Chisholm that was one of them, or perhaps the only person.” [AM] MS Notebook – Gaelic topics most of which are indexed inside front cover. MS Notebook – Local history and Gaelic topics, contents listed inside front cover. [AM] MS Notebook (No.2) – Notes on tweed, local history, Park, education etc. [AM] MS Account Book of Donald Kennedy, 2 Calbost, the Calbost shoemaker. Entries, including names of customers and price of work done, from 1894 to 1899. [For his tools – see Museum].* MS Minute Book of the Pairc Association 1955-1975, with some inserted papers and draft letters MS Notebook – with a few bits of English verse Scrapbook, with newspaper cuttings, chiefly from the Stornoway Gazette during the 1950s, some loose cuttings and miscellaneous other papers of similar period. Scrapbook, with newspaper and other cuttings re. landraid memorials, museum items, Calbost history etc. Scrapbook, with cuttings and photocopies of articles re. history of religion/Christianity c2000-2002 Scrapbook, with newspaper cuttings and photocopies of articles and letters c2000-2002, 1963 -1967 Folder 1: Chapters for a Pairc history (listed inside front cover). Folder 2: Chapters for a Pairc history (as Folder 1) Folder 3: Chapters on ‘The Land-Struggle in the Pairc Peninsula’ Cuimhneachain Nan Gaisgeach – Memorial Cairns Plans: 1. Memorial cairn to the Aignish Farm Raiders 9th January 1888 2. Memorial cairn at Balallan – Park Raid 1887-1888 3. Memorial cairn at Gress River Letter from MacDonald Maciver & Co, solicitors, to A M, with copy of Crofters Commission decision regarding boundaries of a croft at Kirkibost, Bernera, and plan. 27 February 1984 Copy of draft article on land struggle history by AM (sent to the Stornoway Gazette?) N.D. In blue folder entitled ‘Cairns’. Card with Gaelic outline of the Cairns project 1989 Bundle of copies of correspondence and associated papers 199 1-1992, 1999 Folder: Correspondence, Accounts, and Notes 1993-1998 Folder: Correspondence, Accounts, Notes etc. 1997- 1998 1 Ring binder: Minutes of meetings of Cuimhneachain Nan Gaisgeach committee, with correspondence and site maps 1989-1993 Submission for Financial Assistance from Leader and Western Isles Enterprise September 1993 Two copies of photograph showing building of Park Raid cairn, A M looking on; notice of television programme on back 1994. Further copies of photographs and prints from negatives re. Opening of Park Raid cairn 1994 Original copy of piping composition by Ian Crichton: The Deer Raid Marchers 1994 Ring binder: Originals and copies of ‘information’ regarding the Park Raid cairn – contains further copies of material included elsewhere, plans, cuttings, correspondence 1994 Ring binder: Accounts, Notes, Correspondence – subjects include fund-raising 1994-1997 Loose papers: newspaper cuttings 1994-1996, two copy letters 1990 AM (with memorandum) and 1994. Diary for 1996, with early entries. Unveiling/opening of Cairns programme brochures: Pairc Cairn, 26 May 1994 (2 copies); also accounts of background and construction – record of speeches at the opening ceremony (3 copies) Aignish Cairn, 16 August 1996 (2 copies); also bilingual record of speeches at the opening ceremony, and a translation of a Gaelic play by Norman M MacDonald – ‘The Aignish Riot’ – performed as part of the ceremony. Large bundle in folder: Papers – notes, historical accounts, correspondence etc. relating to all cairns, with texts of Joni Buchanan’s book ‘Na Gaisgeach’ Envelope: Two copies of the Environmental Regeneration Award 1997 certificates for the cairns, with three copies of notes on ‘The Paintings’ and a message from Will Maclean. Final Report from Proiseact Nan Eilean: Aignish Cairn Opening 16 August 1996, with copies of newspaper reports. Copy of The Scottish Farmer 19 December 1998, with article on the Cairns and A M. Scottish Crofters Union(SCU) and Lewis Crofters Folder of newspaper cuttings re SCU Grant of the MBE to A.M. 31 December 1986, with accompanying folder of congratulatory letters, Statutes of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and The Chapel of the Most Excellent order of the British Empire by F Hood - printed at Oxford 1979. Rules of the Lewis Crofters Ltd. (2), and Official Handbooks of the Federation of Crofters’ Unions 1971 (4), 1973, 1974 (2). Two SCU membership cards 1989, 1991. Final draft typescript of The Claim of Crofting by James Hunter, sent by JH to AM 1 March 1991, with letter from JH Folder of papers relating to the emergence of the SCU, with early minutes of the Western Isles Crofters Union, 1972 – 1986. Includes history of the movement by AM. Annual Report and Steering Group Report, Federation of Crofters Unions 1984-1985. SCU newsletters, agenda etc. 1991-1995 SCU papers: A Better Crofting Future (1987); SCU Review Document 1994; and a few SCU papers Printed SCU folder of SCU papers, notes by AM, articles and copy of The Crofter 1995. SCU Development Plan 200 1-2003, with correspondence, AM notes, newspaper cuttings, related papers. (in clip) Miscellaneous notes and a few letters re the state of things 1979 - 1999 Scottish Crofting Foundation folder/membership pack. Harris Tweed Opinion for petitioners: The Crofter Hand Woven Harris Tweed Company Ltd. & others v. John Veitch & another 1939 Letter from The Patent Office re the ‘orb’ trademark, with poor copy of regulations 30 August 1954 Personal Conclusions of County Development Officer on Brief Enquiry into Harris Tweed Industry – February 2 1960 (sent to AM 29 March 1960) Typescript extracts from Home Industries in the Highlands and Islands (report 1914), lent by H A Moisley - 6 October 1960 (2 copies) Notes on the Historical Development of the Harris Tweed Industry and the Part Played by the Harris Tweed Association Ltd. (By J [ames] S [haw] G [rant]?) 1961 Harris Tweed Case: Opinion of Lord Hunter in the case of Argyllshire Weavers Ltd. & others v. A Macaulay (Tweeds) Ltd. & others 17 July 1964 Minute Book of the Harris Tweed Producers meetings 19 June 1968 – 1972 A Handbook for Weavers in the Harris Tweed Industry Inverness 1987 INBUCON Draft report on Development of Harris Tweed Marketing Organisation 5 vols 197 1-1975 An Appreciation of the Promotional Prospects for Harris Tweed in the West German and North American Markets – copy sent to AM 5 March 1973 Report on Harris Tweed Promotion, 1973/1974, United States and Canada. Stornoway Loom Trials – Project Report, July 1975 Highlands and Islands Development Board (HIDB): Main Committee revised restructuring proposals and notice of meeting, 6 July 1975 Copy of Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Harris Tweed Association Ltd. (revised), sent to AM 16 May 1979. Folder: Memo of the Harris Tweed Industry – by A.M. Typescript 1975 (4 copies) Notes on the Harris Tweed Industry prepared for use in 1993 for a Community talk on the Industry at Leurbost school - by AM (with c12 copies) Lewis Association report on the Harris Tweed Industry and its importance in Lewis, 13 October 1944 (3 copies) Cutting from Stornoway Gazette 27 October 1944 on the Harris Tweed Trade. Handwritten notes for talk on the Harris Tweed Industry at Balallan 1993 Sheet bearing title: Harris Tweed – a growing Highland industry by H A Moisley [no article] Seven copies of the report by H A Moisley on the History of the Harris Tweed Industry N.D. Envelope containing miscellaneous papers on Harris Tweed and the Harris Tweed Authority, including Moisley’s contributions. Copy of the draft Bill for Harris Tweed sent by The Harris Tweed Association to A.M. 25 February 1992 Folder: newspaper cuttings, mostly photocopies, re Harris Tweed 1944 -1995 Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, mostly from Stornoway Gazette, on tweed issues e.g. weavers contracts 1996 Folder, containing numerous copies of pictures illustrating the manufacture of ‘Old Hand-Made Cloth’ Manuscripts: ‘Early History of Harris Tweed’ with notes of questions and general points. ‘The Origin of Harris Tweed’ ‘What is Harris Tweed?’ ‘Harris Tweed Association Ltd.’, ‘Single Width’, ‘Small Producers’, ‘The Proposed Weaving Holding Company’. Minute of meeting of Harris Tweed Small Producers 12 September 1995 Two further papers - on ‘Ancient History’ – of Calbost and district; and on the attachment of the crofting community to the land. Copy of letter from AM to the Stornoway Gazette 11 January 1992 on the church in‘Kearness’. Miscellaneous Loose Papers: Harris Tweed Association – Yardages stamped 1911-1977, 1911-1995 (2 copies), 1911-1978 with notes. Illustrated Article by AM: Harris Tweed – An Clo Mor N.D. Sheets of ‘Questions’ (3 AM manuscript and 1 copy), and draft letter probably to Gazette. Introductory sheet (AM manuscript) to Memo on the Harris Tweed Industry. 3 Typescript copy of letter from AM to C Scott Mackenzie Jnr. on re-classification of weavers 28 January 1970 Distributed photocopy of pp.58-59 ‘Der Spiegel’ 1973 Printed folded brochure: A Tweed Tale – The story of Harris from wool to wearer N.D. Draft letter from AM to? Re ‘Orb’ trademark, spinners etc. N.D. Eleven pages entitled ‘During the Second World War’ (from The Islanders and the Orb by Janet Hunter Stornoway 2001 pp.15 1-164 – Chapter 10) sent as draft to AM.