Peace's Orkney and Shetland almanac and county directory

Almanac and County Directory for Orkney and Shetland, plus stories, poems and folktales in the Almanac Companion.

1903 Almanac Companion - A Shetland Country Wedding of Long Ago; Harray Stories; St Tredwell's Church (with photo); The Rose of St Magnus (words of hymn); The origin of the name "Kuncra" of Kuncra Tower (at Rhenen in Utrecht); Shetland Curses; Lerwick Beggars in the 18th century; A Shetland Witch; Maeshowe (with drawing); The Tale of Hogni and Hedinn; The Translator of the "Orcades"; No change; Ancestry of James Russell Lowell; Song of the Wind (poem by James L Harcus); Jock-wi'-the-Airm (Jock Thomson) of Shapinsay.

1904 Almanac Companion - The Hermit of Westray by Jeanie Bruce (another version of the Archie Angel story); An Old Funeral Invitation; A Strong Desire (a Shetland tale) by John Nicolson; Cross Kirk, Westray (with photo); Orkney Seal Lore; Nursed by an Indian Squaw; The Black Raven (a Norwegian Legend); The Grey Selchie (poem); The Name "Pomona"; In the Cathedral of Saint Magnus (song by James L Harcus); The Ghosts of Kirkwall Cathedral; Shetland Minister and Heritor.

1905 Almanac Companion - William Balfour Baikie; The Luckless Lover by John Kerr, LL.D; Jock Trowdy's Crime; The Battle of Summerdale; Da Bridal o Hjaltland (poem by J J Haldane Burgess); Orkney and the Commonwealth (ie. Cromwell's time) (p140-142); Lines on North Ronaldsay Lighthouse (poem)(p142); Old Church at Westness, Rousay (with photo)(p143); An Election of Shetland Rancelmen, 1767 (p144); The Spaniards at Fair Isle (p144-145); Five to One(story set in 1808)(p145-147); Carried off by the Fairies (p147).

1906 Almanac Companion - Samuel Laing of Papdale; How Vagn joined the Jomsborg Vikings; Eynhallow (with chapel photo); tammas had Doots; A wise Westray Body; The Sailor (a Shetland story); Mr Pope of Reay (Caithness); Orkney (poem by Robert Heddle).

1907 Almanac Companion - Sir Robert Strange (p133-140); A Shetland Holy Well (p140); Leaving the Parish (joke) (p140); Johnnie Wards nicknamed "Hillock", a Kirkwall character (with drawing)(p141-2); An Eighteenth Century Election, 1734 (p142); Sir William Honyman, Bart. (p143); Twice too late (p143); The Trow's Changeling (A lament by A Francis Steuart (p144); St John's Eve in Burray (p144-146); Winnie Waithe (A Lay of the Odin Stane by Daniel Gorrie) (p146-147); "The one to Yell and the other to Bray" (Shetland joke) (p147).