In these two classes we will be learning the last port of ten puirt in Maclean-Clephane MS 10615: a beautiful, ornamented melody that works well over a simple drone bass, as a starting point for a fleshed-out setting. This MS is one of many made by the elder two Maclean Clephane sisters, and most likely copied down by the younger of these, Anna Jane, in 1816. Aristocrats from the Hebridean Isle of Mull, in Scotland, the sisters were fluent in Gaelic. Encouraged by their mother, they took up music, and Gaelic song collecting from an early age, making lyrics translations that they also sent to their close family friend and guardian, the novelist Walter Scott. An annotation in this MS indicates that, beginning on page 39, ‘The foregoing airs are all taken from the playing of O'Kain by Mr MacDonald’, referring to the 18th-century Irish harper Echlin Ó Catháin, and the Rev. Patrick MacDonald, who notated music from him.