Saturday 6 April 2013

This is an Exception to the Rule...

You know how we feel about people writing on our books readers. You know.

But.... Look at these! They're lovely little illustrations pencilled into our copy of Voices From The Light House, a poetry collection by James Morrison,






No, not that one.


No.





Our James Morrison (we think) appears as an assistant light house keeper on Walls, aged 28 in the 1881 census. He was born in Bemera, Invernesshire.


We like to rename this one 'archi' and pretend that it's about us, :



Voices from the Light House, a book of poems by James Morrison, Orkney Room reference: 800 Y MOR

2 comments:

  1. Can't wait to see it when we come up in the spring

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    1. Thank you! We're on the first floor of the Library & Archive Building, straight ahead at the top of the stairs.

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