Alexander MacRae | Alasdair A. MacRath (no confirmed dates) lived in Winton, New Zealand. He transcribed an elegy by the eighteenth-century Lochalsh poet Kenneth MacRae, ‘Cumha: Do Cheathrar Iainean na h-Alba’, originally for Mac-Talla, which was sent to Alba by ‘D. M. P.’ (Donald MacPherson) from Sydney, Nova Scotia. He also submitted an enquiry about a song allegedly by Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair.
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- ‘Litir’ [letter, ENG; on the song ‘Tha mi a’ creideamh a’ Phapa,’ allegedly by Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair], Volume II, Issue 4 (Autumn 1905)
- Coinneach MacRath: ‘Cumha: Do Cheathrar Iainean na h-Alba’ [poetry, GD; transcribed by Alexander MacRae; forwarded to Alba by ‘D. M. P.’], Issue 36 (10 October 1908)