Author: John MacCullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The highlands and western isles of Scotland, in letters to sir Walter Scott
Author: John MacCullochLetters from the Highlands
Author: Anne PerryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781932280562
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
These are selections from "Letters from the Highlands" published monthly on the internet by Meridian Magazine, describing experiences in a small branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Northern Scotland. Thoughts on life and spiritual matters are drawn from events, talks, meditations on people and nature, and the commonality of emotion. From all of this can be gained joy, pain and wisdom.
Burt's Letters
Author: Edmund BurtPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government. For most of the time, he was based in Inverness, from where he wrote regularly to an acquaintance in London about his experiences. Burt had an insatiable curiosity about everything. From cooking and personal hygiene (the standards of which continually shocked him), to weddings, funerals, public executions and even the activities of witches, no aspect of Highland life or society escaped his scrutiny. Burt's witty and satirical style makes entertaining reading, but whilst he was certainly critical of many things, he draws a very sympathetic picture of the grinding hardship and poverty faced by so much of the ordinary population. His writing is a salutary antidote to many of the Romantic views of the Highlands and Jacobitism, which were later to take hold. It is now available for the first time in one volume, with modernised spelling and includes an Introduction by Charles W. J. Withers, Professor of Geography in the University of Edinburgh.
The Letters in the Story
Author: Eve Tavor BannetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131651885X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
First study of a long tradition of mixed-mode writing, largely favored by British women novelists, that combined fully-transcribed letters with third-person narrative.
Letters from Beauly
Author: Melynda JarrattPublisher: New Brunswick Military Heritag
ISBN: 9780864928931
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction During the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst was one of them. For five years, Pat served as camp cook with 15 Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps near the ancient town of Beauly, Scotland. A middle-aged New Brunswick farmer and lumberman with a third-grade education, Pat saw more of the world than he had ever dreamed of, visiting ancient battlefields he had learned about as a child, travelling to his ancestral Ireland, and attending a course of lectures in British history at Oxford University. While in Scotland, Pat regularly corresponded with his family in New Brunswick. Drawing from this unique collection of more than three hundred letters, as well as hundreds of archival documents and photographs, Melynda Jarratt provides a rare glimpse of what life was like for Canadian servicemen overseas and for their relatives at home. Letters from Beauly is volume 23 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series, co-published with the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society.
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London
Author: Edward BurtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Letters
Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674528307
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
These letters of a man deeply concerned about his country, directly involved in political action, and torn, as the Civil War approached, by the conflict between his abolitionist zeal and his Quaker pacifism--letters here collected for the first time and many of them hitherto unpublished--shatter the stereotype of Whittier as "the good gray poet." The many letters to such figures as John Quincy Adams, Charles Sumner, and William Lloyd Garrison form a detailed record of the abolitionist movement from its inception to its merging with the Free Soil party in the 1850s. The first two volumes reproduce all the extant letters from 1828 to 1860, with full annotations. The last volume is selective, excluding several thousand perfunctory items and including only the historically or biographically interesting letters of the last three decades of the poet's life.
My Dear Son
Author: Margaret A. MillerPublisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458218074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
John McDougall, the last weaver on the Isle of Lismore in the West Highlands of Scotland, was not wealthy but his life as superintendent of the small islands Sabbath school was far from simple. As his eight children passed away or left Lismore for other parts of Scotland and America to live more prosperous lives, McDougall began writing letters to his adult son, John, who emigrated to Minnesota. The letters, which reflect his sadness after the childrens departure, provide rare insight into the daily routine and thoughts of a landless cottar who was an engaged and valued member of the Lismore community. Edited by his great-great-granddaughter, Margaret Miller, the compilation includes images of McDougalls original handwritten letters from 1870 to 1888, related photographs and maps, a timeline of events, and family trees. The letters reveal a thoughtful man who cared deeply about his family and community, and include poignant reminders of the ways in which medicine, communications, and transportation have changed throughout the centuries. As McDougall shares his thoughts and wishes, his enduring human values are brought to the forefront as this devout, principled man managed to influence the development of communities in the United States through his descendants. My Dear Son shares a compelling collection of letters from a nineteenth century Scottish island weaver to his son, letting us hear his thoughts as he continues his life in Scotland while his son emigrates to America and begins anew.
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London, Containing the Description of a Capital Town an that Northern Country, with an Account of Some Uncommon Customs of the Inhabitants, Likewise An Account of the Highlands ... to which is Added, a Letter Relating to the Military Ways Among the Mountains, Begun in the Year 1726 ; The Fifth Edition with a Large Appendix ... and the History of Donald the Hammerer (etc.)
Author: Edward BurtA Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Signet Library. 1882-1887
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description