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1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Erskine

 

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1800-1849[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points...Magdalene Erskine Anne GrantLetters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, third edition.Print: Book
1800-1849Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cr...John Drummond Erskine Adam DicksonAn essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debtPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marke...John Drummond Erskine HelvetiusA treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. HooperPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to ...John Drummond Erskine William TennantIndian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William TennantPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Conten...John Drummond Erskine Francis GladwinDissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis GladwinPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a t...John Drummond Erskine HafizThe works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings.Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: a single item, within a miscellany, is annotated "The Monody on the death of Mr. Cleveland" pp.146-151. ...John Drummond Erskine Javahir at-talif fi navadir at-tasanif = The Asiatick miscellany: consisting of original productions, translations, fugitive pieces, imitations, and extracts from curious publications, Vol.2Print: Book
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[Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a fr...Miss Erskine Robert LowthA short introduction to English grammar: with critical notesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: ms note in Latin on inside front cover may or may not be connected with the text as the book has evidenc...William Erskine VirgilWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the ...John Drummond Erskine Joseph EminThe life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenian. Written in English by himselfPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdi...John Drummond Erskine OvidMetamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan BaileyPrint: Book
1850-1899[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is referen...Magdalene Sharpe Erskine Alexander MacaulayA dictionary of medicine, designed for popular usePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or ...John Drummond Erskine Stephen WestonA specimen of the conformity of the European languagesPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 af...John Drummond Erskine James BeattieScoticisms arranged in alphabetical orderPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proport...John Drummond Erskine James SteuartAn inquiry into the principles of political oeconomyPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Loui...John Drummond Erskine Jean de La BruyereLes caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, avec des notes par M. CostePrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days...John Drummond Erskine John SinclairObservations on the Scottish dialect. By John SinclairPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar ...John Drummond Erskine William JonesGrammar of the Persian Language, APrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Ra...John Drummond Erskine Francois BernierHistory of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 p...John Drummond Erskine John WheatleyRemarks on currency and commercePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight point...John Drummond Erskine William JonesPoeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo JonesPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These ...John Drummond Erskine HoraceQuinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira RomanaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from ...John Drummond Erskine Bernard de MontfauconAntiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys,Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also...Magdalene Erskine Bernard de MontfauconAntiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David HumphreysPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled "Letter from Princess Mary to L...David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan David Steuart Erskine, Lord BuchanAnonymous and fugitive essays of the Earl of BuchanPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376...Magdalene Erskine Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ?Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (++) throughout, one date (p. 68 'Feb, 18.19'), and very occasional comments; eg. longest...Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou description generale ? de cette ville celebre et de ses environs, antiquaire RomainPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleri...John Drummond Erskine Andrew FullerAn apology for the late Christian missions to IndiaPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points o...John Drummond Erskine John RichardsonGrammar of the Arabick language in which the rules are illustrated by authorities from the best writers; principally adapted for the service of the Honourable East India CompanyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansBring flowersPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonymousThe season of deathPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia HemansThe voice of springPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George Gordon, Lord ByronWhen coldness wraps this suffering clayPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heav...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonEpitaph on an IdiotPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know wh...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Thomas] [Moore][The Blue Stocking]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron][Don Juan - Canto the Third]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart w...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] Beresford[On vaccination]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] MontgomeryNightPrint: Unknown
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe wa...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonEpitaph on a tomb in Melrose AbbeyPrint: Unknown
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace des...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[Translation of an Arabic Ode]Print: Unknown
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's f...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[The Ton]Print: Unknown
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the trouble...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Burns][Lady Mary Anne]Print: Unknown
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh f...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/Th...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonOde to the closing yearPrint: Serial / periodical
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflicti...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflictionPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans]The grave of a poetessPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisan...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]?[Adieu]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Dr Clark[unknown]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His sold...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe recordPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Maria TigheThe lilyPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George CrolyEvening's daughterPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a pi...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe Troubadour [extract]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation a...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[On Friendship]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shade...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine H. SmithCountry and TownPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine[L'Homme]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines on HomePrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He trea...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Henry NeeleThe cometPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ a...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas Moore[unknown]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festi...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe illuminated cityPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring fort...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe forest sanctuaryPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [unknown]Poesie di OssianPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Mary] [Tighe]The old Maid's prayer to DianaPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Pollock]The Course of Time [extract]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonThe Dead and the Living [extract]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine William Wordsworth[The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different so...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreMy BirthdayPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreTo my motherPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ O...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonResignationPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Joseph Addison[Spare Time]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our exp...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonJournal of an AnnuyeePrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light an...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] Southey[The curse of Kehama, canto X]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come i...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Walter] [Scott][The monastery]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy belo...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans][Kindred hearts]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee a...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine John Malcolm[untitled]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]Matilde a novelPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon][untitled]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans[untitled]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels th...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine G.I. C.....The Eve of the BattlePrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]A Highland Salute to the QueenPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]The Star of MissionsPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]unknownPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text]...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Innes[?]Lines on Mountghaine [?]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lock...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Luis BaylonFarewell to the YearPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of s...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Maria] AbdyWorsted workPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine M. VicaryLinesPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]The dead friendPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to Go...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine John MackintoshAdieuPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles]To one at restPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anonymous[untitled]Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of...John Drummond Erskine Niccolo MachiavelliThe works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans ....Print: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra...Thomas Erskine Samuel Richardson[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me...Andrew Erskine William Hamilton[poems]Print: Book

 

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