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on 26/09/00 17:56, Peter Dillon at Peterd@hagley.school.nz wrote:
> Victoria University Library in Wellington, New Zealand has a copy.
>
>> ----------
>> From: Ian Sinclair[SMTP:sinclrig@netspace.net.au]
>> Reply To: sinclair@matrix.net
>> Sent: Tuesday, 26 September 2000 21:36
>> To: sinclair@matrix.net
>> Subject: Re: St Clairs of the Isles--Locations
>>
>> 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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Greetings to all,
while publishing dates of any book are imnportant (I guess for veracity) I
wonder what difference it makes wherher it is 100 years old or, say, 120, 70
or 110? Just curious...
Fran
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