Re: St Clairs of the Isles--Locations

["Ian Sinclair" <sinclrig@netspace.net.au>]

Rory,

If you can get access to a copy of the book, pages 556/7 (the last 2 pages)
of the book, lists approx 100 persons / institutions that subscribed before
publishing. Approximately 50 of the subscriptions were from individuals (all
of whom are lost since gone), so one can only guess where the books ended
up. Local records indicate that ony 500 volumes wee printed and they are
spread world wide

I fortunately managed to get the Victorian State Library to micro fische the
entire book for me. It is small print and not easy to read but have found
the Caithness Cadet families to be very interesting.


Ian Sinclair, Melbourne, Australia


-----Original Message-----
From: Rory Sinclair <rory.sinclair@accglobal.net>
To: sinclair@matrix.net <sinclair@matrix.net>
Date: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 9:49
Subject: Re: St Clairs of the Isles--Locations


>Dear Ian:
>Good work on putting this on the list!
>Those books show up in the most amazing places.
>A few months ago, I accompanied Malcolm Caithness to a meeting with Lister
>Sinclair here in Toronto. Those who are not Canadian will not know that
>Lister is a broadcaster and has been one in Canada since the late 1940's.
>He has a couple of PhD.'s, is knowledgeable about practically anything and
>is known by more Canadians than practically any other public personage.  He
>brought with him his copy of St. Clair of the Isles and to whom do you
think
>it originally belonged?  Alexander MacLean Sinclair of Goshen Nova Scotia,
>and author of the Sinclairs of Rosslyn, Caithness and Goshen (1901) as well
>as the definitive work on the MacLeans.  His signature was in the front
>cover and now so is Malcolm's.  Not a big story just a nice one.
>Aye,
>Rory
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Sinclair <sinclrig@netspace.net.au>
>To: sinclair@matrix.net <sinclair@matrix.net>
>Date: Monday, September 25, 2000 6:35 AM
>Subject: Re: St Clairs of the Isles--Locations
>
>
>>To all interested parties
>>
>>The book was published in ASuckland NZ  in 1989 by R Brett
>>
>>Among the list of subscribers before print were:
>>Library of Christiana University, Norway
>>R Flaws & son, Manchester buildings, Melinda St. Toronto
>>Ottawa Parliamentary Library, Ottawa, canada
>>Toronto Public Library, Toronto
>>Sydney Public Library, Sydney, New South Wales
>>The Viking Club, 17 Westminster rd, London
>>The Mitchell Library, 21 Miller St, Glasgow
>>Douglas & Foulis, 9 castle St, Edinburgh
>>
>>This may a starting point for some good research / detective work
>>
>>Ian Sinclair
>>Melbourne Australia
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: CMelahn@aol.com <CMelahn@aol.com>
>>To: sinclair@matrix.net <sinclair@matrix.net>
>>Date: Monday, 25 September 2000 4:51
>>Subject: St Clairs of the Isles--Locations
>>
>>
>>>Seeing the recent mention of the  "The St. Clairs of the Isles"  by
Roland
>>>St. Clair of New Zealand, I wonder if we have a listing of where copies
>>might
>>>be available to researchers?
>>>
>>>I visited Kansas City recently and was surprised to find a copy in the
>>>Genealogical Collection of the main public library in downtown Kansas
>City.
>>>
>>>Others know of locations where this book is publicly available?  Add a
>list
>>>of these locations to our web pages?
>>>
>>>Chris
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