Papers of Donald McNicol, 1735-1802, minister

Gaelic documents (mainly sermons) written, for the most part, by the Rev Donald McNicol. Some in English.

The Rev  Donald McNicol (1735-1802 ), was minister successively of Saddell and Lismore in Argyll.

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Purchased from the exeutors of George Henderson as part of Henderson collection, c.1912.

Details of descriptions are available via the department's online manuscripts catalogue accessible from the University of Glasgow Library, Department of Special Collections website  http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/, searching by the call number MS Gen 60.

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McNicol's papers were in the possession of Ludovick Cameron, 1870-1872. In 1872 they were placed in the custody of a Mr Nicholson, advocate in Edinburgh, and were subsequently acquired by George Henderson. Part of McNicol's original calletion passed to James S Elliot, husband of McNicol's great-great-granddaughter, who deposited this in the National Library of Scotland (NLS Acc.2152)

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Fonds level description compiled by Andrew Thomson, Hub Project Archivist, 22 April 2005