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Contents:
Walls kirk session minutes;
Fasts, food and famines;
The lepers in Papa Stour;
The Papa Stour bell;
The session's acts and regulations;
Foreign coinage in the session's money;
Notification of a change of name;
An eighteenth century communion;
Lamb worrying by swine;
The sabbath breakers;
Charity to prisoners of war;
The first communion in Foula;
The Frau Rebecah Elisabeth;
The mortcloth

Contents:
John Nicolson, 'Shetland folk-tales';
William W. Ratter, 'Our Shetland place-names';
Peter W. Moar, 'Fiddle tunes';
E.S. Reid Tait, 'Folk songs and lullabies';
Thomas Henderson, 'Traditions and tales';
Verse by Jane Saxby and A. and G. Deyell;
Robert W. Tait, 'Some Shetland plant names'.

Offprint from A.E.I. Magazine

With, tipped in:

Manuscript order by James Buchan to John Dalziel, to deliver funds to Thomas Duncan from the quarterly fund in Walls, 22 November 1765;

Receipt from James Davidson, Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, to William Miller, bookseller, for monies received in the parish of Walls, 19 November 1750;

Transcriptions of financial receipts concerning Happyhansel school, 1773

With, tipped in:

Manuscript letter by Arthur Edmondston, Buness, Unst, 7 May 1834;

Manuscript letter by Charles Greig, to A. Greig, concerning the Scalloway road, 28 December 1842;

Manuscript letter by P. Peterson, concerning subscriptions for the Scalloway road, 16 November 1841;

Manuscript letter by J. Bryden, undated;

Manuscript minute of Scalloway Road Subscription Committee, 29 December 1841

Edition by E.S. Reid Tait of the 'Sheep Letter' promulgated in the Faroes in 1298, perhaps for a planned collection of articles