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SA4/4282/1 · 1892-1895
Part of Books and publications

1892
An Unst fisherman, 'My first voyage to the haaf: an experience of fifty years ago - written in the vernacular of those times';
'Shetland ponies';

1893
J.J.M.M, 'Shetland smuggling stories: being narratives of incidents in the last century';
Music of 'the Foula Reel';
'The sword dance': from The Pirate;
'Shetland Superstitions, Folklore' from Shetland Fireside Tales;
J.J. Haldane Burgess, 'Kirstie Kaddle's yow';
J.J. Haldane Burgess, 'The star' (poem)

1894
Laurence Laurenson,Whalsay 'Yarns of an old Shetlander' ('The Shalderness thief' and 'A whale hunt');
Anonymous, 'Auld Gibbie's hallowe'en';
Reid Tait, 'The history of a crime';
R.S., 'The first Shetland shawl' (poem)

1895
Rognvald V. Thorvald, 'Wanted a pilot';
Nor, 'A tale of two schooners';
'Specimen of old Shetland dialect: copy letter by Mr Archibald Barclay to Mr John Sands, Liverpool';
L.J. Nicolson, 'Du kens my hert is dine' (poem);
Portrait and profile of Christian Ployen;
'Proverbial sayings concerning husbandry, weather, etc.';
'A Shetland heiress, Anno. 1403';
'Earl Rognavald and the Dunrossness man'

SA4/4282/14 · 1941-1944
Part of Books and publications

1941
'French' Ollason, 'The old piers of Lerwick';
Capt. A. Halcrow, 'A battle off the Horn Reef: an account of the last phase of smuggling in Shetland'

1942
Stella Smith, Foula, 'An island mail-day' (poem);
Eleanor B. Harcus, 'A trow flitting';
Polaris, 'A whale-hunt and its sequel'

1943
Stella Smith, Foula, 'Lads for a' thing' (story);
Emily Milne, 'Da baa-baa bokies' (poem);
E.J. Smith, 'Da tale o' Clavermann' (poem)

1944
Elizabeth R. Manson, 'The tale of a leg' (story);
Girzie o' Brettafield, 'Girzie's ootburst' (poem)

SA4/4282/4 · 1904-1907
Part of Books and publications

1904
Eliza J. Peterson, 'Hilda's isle' (story);
'Mansie at the herring fishing' (story)

1905
T.P. Ollason, 'Shetland sketches' ('Da haethen' and 'Da aald pier head');
'Shetland anecdotes';
'Sandlodge mines' with photograph;
Tirval, 'Maaly' (poem);
'Playground lyrics';
Photograph of '7th V.B.G.H. drill hall, school of arms, and gymnasium for Shetland' (now Garrison theatre)

1906
Eliza J. Peterson, 'The heart of a mother' (story);
Photograph of 'Bigton Church, Dunrossness, opened on 30th July 1905';
John Nicolson, 'His one failing: a Shetland tale';
Photograph of 'Tingwall Public Hall, opened 21 August 1905';
Photograph of 'Muckle Roe bridge, opened 27 July 1905';
Gilbert Goudie, 'Shetland Antiquities'

1907
Eliza J. Peterson, 'Friends: a story of Shetland';
'The inexhaustible "pig"';
'New fish quay, Lerwick' (photograph);
T.P. Ollason, 'The feud' (story);
'Lerwick harbour at midnight, june 22' (photograph);

SA4/4282/9 · 1925-1928
Part of Books and publications

1925
[Thomas Manson], 'More leaves from the P.M.'s diary: tales of the trows';
'Yule in the "Old Rock" sixty years ago';
Alfred Grosvener, '"Only the brave -": a Scottish story'

1926
Norman Park, 'The spectre of Baffin Bay: being the tale of the ill-fated Northern Star';
Frank M. Drewery, 'The "shooting" of Archie Brock'

1927
Oliver Groat, 'The tale of a stamp' (story);
Mrs M. Robertson, 'Yellow dust' (story);
Ethel F. Heddle, 'By the glove' (story);
John Anthony, 'The way out' (story)

1928
Tina M.M. Shewan, Fetlar, 'Da S.O.S.' (story);
Jessie J. Henderson, 'Tam as detective' (story)

SA4/4282/11 · 1933-1935
Part of Books and publications

1933
A.T.C., 'Pete's cruise' (account of sea voyage);
Capt. A. Halcrow, 'The luckless Lisnacrieve'

1934
Capt. A. Halcrow, 'The loss of the Matadi';
'A visit to Shetland in 1844' (from Chambers's Miscellany, 1870)

1935
A.T.C., '"Bank's airt"' (story);
Isabella Stewart, 'The island of Whalsay'