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1945-6
Elizabeth J. Smith, 'Da gait o' da Klüster' (story)

1947
S.C.S., 'Geordie's spürin' (story);
Elizabeth J. Smith, 'A mark for the arrow' (story);
John Stewart, 'Some notes on Whalsay'

1948
George Stewart. 'Shetland superstitions, folk lore, &c';
Emily Milne, 'Sunday buits', 'Da peerie brichtsome breeze' (poems)

1949
Andrew J. Irvine, A story in verse and two poems ('Da returns', 'Da staandin stane', 'Da Earl's toot');
S.C.S., 'Da hansel' (story);
S.C.S., 'Caster's maet' (poem)

1950
Andrew J. Irvine, Uyeasound, Three Shetlandic stories in verse ('Da auld ebb', 'Ill-helt', 'Atmospherics')

1951
Mrs A. Johnson, Nanmaimo, B.C., 'Minny' (story);

1952
Wan o' da boys (J.J. Haldane Burgess), 'A night in Tammy Scolla's but end' (reprinted by permission)

1953
R.W. Isbister, Foula, 'The wreck of the 'Sarah' brig'

1954
K. Holm Hascosay, 'It might happen ta onnybody' (story)

1896
'Sir Robert Hamilton' with photograph;
F.J.G., 'An old family feud' (concerning dispute between Neven and Mowat);
Gilbert Goudie, 'Commission by King Christian the fourth of Denmark to Magnus Sinclair, Captain of the ship 'Leoparden' 1627';
'Specimen of the Cumberland dialect';
'When last we met' (short story);
'Old words relating to the "crü'

1897
'Local government in Shetland in the seventeenth century';
Uvahn, 'Old Lerwick';
'Records of the supernatural';
John Nicolson, 'The broken jar: a Shetland sketch';
J. Inkster, 'An incident of the "haaf" fishing';
James Robertson, 'The trow of Symbister House';
'Knockin' stane and mell';
'Lerwick old town clock';
'Shetland anecdotes'

1898
John Nicolson, 'Chased by the press-gang: A Shetland sketch';
James Robertson, 'A wrecking adventure';
J.J.H.B., 'Old Norse notions of the Arctic world';
'A blate quaik' (anecdote);
H.D., 'Muckle Rasmie: fisherman';
Basil R. Anderson, 'Heim-Folk' (poem);
'Two Shetland fiddlers: "Singin' Lowrie" and James Stout' with sketches

1899
'An adventure with eagles' (story);
James Robertson, 'A dream of Thule' (poem: and see 1921); '
The Holes of Scraada' with sketch;
'Gibbie Tullock's Faroe whisky: a Shetland sketch';
'The Shetland arms' (concerning print circulated during Corn Laws agitation);
'Shetland anecdotes'

1920
Muckle Flugga, 'Ruby Renelson's marriage' (story);
Sniper, 'Fearless, and yet afraid' (story);
'Two Robbies: and three yarns' (from Thomas Manson, 'Lerwick During the Last Half Century');
John Johnson, 'The call of the sea' (poem)

1921
'Greenland time in the past' (regarding whale fisher);
'A smuggling yarn';
'Father Neptune's shave' (sea anecdote);
'Hallow E'en';
James Robertson 'A Dream of Thule' (poem)

1922
G. Stewart, 'Mansie Mudjick's Coortships'

1924
[Thomas Manson], 'Leaves from the P.M.'s diary' (fiction);
Hiawatha, '"To Norrowa over the faem": a reminiscence;
'The Bruce Hostel' (opened 9 August 1923, description of building)

Usually includes:
List of Members of Parliament
List of county councillors
Names of county officers and officials
Names of Commissioners of Supply
Names of Justices of the Peace
Names of sanitary inspectors
Names of medical practitioners
List of clergy
District directories
List of first-class Shetland fishing boats
Fishing statistics
Descriptions of parish boundaries
List of post offices and postmasters
Postal statistics
Population statistics
Agricultural statistics
Shipping statistics

1900
'A legend of the Skerries' (about wrecked vessel "Camilan" in 1664);
F.J.G., 'Tingwall church and churchyard' with sketch;
'Some odd characters in Shetland from three-quarters to half-a-century ago';
John Nicolson, '"Dorts"' (story);
'Wir bairn's first voyage to the sea';
'Freefield Docks' with sketch

1901
T.P. Ollason, 'Hawke's Indian charm: a Shetland sketch';
Eliza J. Peterson, 'In the days of the law-ting' (story)

1902
James Inkster, 'Loss of the Goldencrag, or, the fate of a missing wife';
John Nicolson, 'The laird's stratagem: a Shetland tale'

1903
T.P. Ollason, 'Seemin's baby: a Shetland sketch';
J.I., 'Fethaland, Northmavine' with photograph;
'Shetland herring fishing in 1821 (from Blackwood's Magazine, December 1821);
'Providential wrecks' (anecdote);
'Catechising a century ago'

1908
Herbert Russell, 'My share of the salvage' (story);
'Lerwick from the north' (photograph);
John Spence, 'Notes on Fetlar';
'New fish market, Lerwick' (photograph);
John Nicolson, 'The Whalwick cup: a Shetland sketch'

1909 - These items have been removed from the volume. Another copy at SA4/2461/18
J.J. Haldane Burgess, 'The kirk window' (story);
'Esplanade, looking north' (photograph);
A.J., 'Leaves from a sailor's log book' (story);
Reid Tait, 'A bunch of violets: a seaside romance';
J.K. Leys, 'The black Macgregor' (story)

1910
J.J. Haldane Burgess, 'Miss Kirsty's funeral, an anachronism' (story);
John Spence, 'Old-time Shetland cures and superstitions';
John Nicolson, 'The Muckligarth mystery' (story);
'Moonlit photograph of Scalloway' (photograph)

1911
J.J. Haldane Burgess, 'Jerry's concluding spree' (story);
A.J., 'Leaves from a sailor's log book' (story);
Bruck, 'Erty Laurenson's courtship' (story);
'Shetland grievance of the eighteenth century' (from Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, November 1774)

1912
J.J. Haldane Burgess, 'Rosie White' (story);
Henry Firth, 'A grave on the Goodwins' (story);
'A summer night at Lerwick' (photograph);
John Nicolson, 'Anton Peterson, hero' (story)

1913
Mrs A.J., 'Her holiday' (story);
'The establishment of public schools in Shetland'

1914
J.J. Haldane Burgess, 'Jeems o' Hooll and his vote: a Shetland sketch';
Mrs A. Johnson, Nanaimo, B.C., 'Minny' (story)

1929
George Stewart, 'Mansie Mudjick's Courtships' (reprint, see 1922);
'The Fenian "raid" on Shetland' (and see 1936);
R.H., 'The smuggler' (incident of 1822)

1930
A.N.O.F., 'Saandy Scott an' Tammie Twatt: a Shetland story in verse';
T.P. Ollason, 'Mansie revisits Lerwick' (story)

1931
J.J. Haldane Burgess, 'Geordie Twatt's bridal: a Shetland sketch';
'On the steamer' (poem);
'Weather prognostications';
E.T. Nice, 'Hame frae da hill' (poem);
A. N. O. F. (W.J. Tulloch), 'Da divertin history o Johnnie Green's coortship, as towld b' himsel' (story)

1932
Capt. A. Halcrow, 'Their last lapse' (story);
[Charles Johnson], 'The fishing boat disaster, 13-14 July 1881: experiences of a Northmavine survivor, told by himself fifty years later;
A. N. O. F. (W.J. Tulloch), 'The dream' (poem);
Joe Gray, 'Lowrie at da pikters' (story)