Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Preface (1980)
- Introduction (1980)
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- 1 MORVERN IN 1800 BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
- 2 THE IMPACT OF EFFICIENCY 1800–1850 PEOPLE REMOVED, LAND IMPROVED
- 3 HOLIDAY HOME 1850–1870: THE ESTATE AS A CONSTRUCTIVE HOBBY
- 4 RICH MAN'S CASTLE 1870–1900: THE ESTATE AS A MACHINE FOR SPORT
- APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- Plate section
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Preface (1980)
- Introduction (1980)
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- 1 MORVERN IN 1800 BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
- 2 THE IMPACT OF EFFICIENCY 1800–1850 PEOPLE REMOVED, LAND IMPROVED
- 3 HOLIDAY HOME 1850–1870: THE ESTATE AS A CONSTRUCTIVE HOBBY
- 4 RICH MAN'S CASTLE 1870–1900: THE ESTATE AS A MACHINE FOR SPORT
- APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The text of this reprint remains unaltered, but new photographs have been used for some of the plates. Further documents have turned up since 1968. The most important of these are:
A substantial collection of Gregorson papers (see pp. 28–9), mostly of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; belonging to Mrs Hector Greenfield of Kilmartin, Argyll.
A drawing of Lochaline House made before its conversion by Mrs Paterson (see pp. 30 and n., 169); belonging to Mrs Margaret Mason of East Grinstead.
A report on the Tearnait copper mines (see p. 171), dated 1789, by the geologist (and author of Baron Munchausern) R. E. Raspe; in the Argyll Archives at Inveraray.
The autograph manuscript of Miss Agnes King's Memoirs (see p. 223); lent me by Miss Ann Bircham of Swannington, Norfolk.
The journal of a visit to Morvern made in 1900 by John MacCalman, a Morvern man who emigrated to America in the 1880s and became a Minister in New York State; belonging to Mrs Kenneth MacCalman of Nyack, N.Y.
It may be added that there are traces of houses in Inninmore at 728416 (remains, see pp. 131–2) and in Dubh Dhoire at 714487 (outline, see p. 141); and of shieling structures in Ardtornish/Inninmore at 713425 (750 ft, see p. 132), in Tearnait around 748455 (650 ft, see p. 132), and in Beach at 776531 (800 ft, see p. 159).
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- Morvern TransformedA Highland Parish in the Nineteenth Century, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1968