Evidence: | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And needest thou our prayers no more, Safe folded mid the blest/ How changed are thou since last we met, To keep the day of rest/ Young with the youth of angels; Wise with the growth of years/ For we have passed since thou has gone, A week of many tears/ ...24th Sept 1871'; [Total = 11 lines] |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 24 Sep 1871 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1787 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Daughter of a Scottish land owning family |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Identity of reader is tentative |
Author: | [Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles] |
Title: | To one at rest |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 10188 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | |
Title: | Recueil | |
Location: | Dunimarle Library at Duff House | |
Call no: | DH LIB 2024 | |
Page/folio: | Item 68 |
Citation: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine, Recueil Dunimarle Library at Duff House, p. DH LIB 2024, p. Item 68, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10188, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
A commonplace book containing 69 items, mainly in one hand. On the basis of writing style, nature of contents, dates of entries (1827-1871) and of the material selected (mainly poets from the late 18th to mid-19th century), and the watermark date (1810), the most likely identity of the main hand is Magdalene Sharpe-Erskine, the youngest child of the main generation who collected the Dunimarle Library. Fourteen of the items are exclusively or mainly prose, the rest are poetry. Most are in English. About half the items are given, by the complier, as anonymous and about a third have no title. In each case some 6 have been identified from other sources. |
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