Record Number: 6469
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 after the end of the text is the ms note 'Scotch - Ever so many people/ Eng. a great many people';p. 63 after the text 'The offer is here supposed to be not mine, but made by another' is the ms note 'To look out of the window/ To look out at ---' p. 69 next to the text 'A prospect for the pocket.-A perspective' is the ms note 'a spy-glass'.
Century:1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date:Between 1787 and 1836
Country:Scotland or India
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:Apr 1776
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:East India Company writer, later landowner
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland or India
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order
Genre:Language
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsEdinburgh: Printed for William Creech, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, London, 1787
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:6469
Source - Manuscript:Other
Author:Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Beattie, James, "Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order, designed to correct improprieties of speech and writing", (Edinburgh, 1787), various pages, [DH LIB 1244]. ,
Citation:Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Beattie, James, "Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order, designed to correct improprieties of speech and writing", (Edinburgh, 1787), various pages, [DH LIB 1244]. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6469, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
The item has no provenance but John Drummond Erskine who died in 1836, was the main book collector and main annotator of volumes in the library. Language was a key interest and the style of the annotations match those in other items with his provenance on them.
