Record Number: 7799

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Marginalia]: Each sermon has a ms date (or dates), possibly indicating use of material: e.g. p. 40 sermon on "Self-ignorance" has ms note 'Ex. F.G. [?] August 8th 1858/ Jany 27th 1861/ Feby 14th 1864/ Apr. 29th 1866; only p.133 has any comment ie "29th /Decr 1867 - very beautiful'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Anon

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

clergyman

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Caird

Title:

Sermons

Genre:

Sermon

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1858

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

7799

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Author:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Eskines of Torrie in Fife: Caird, John, "Sermons", (Edinburgh, 1858), various pages, [DH LIB 929].,

Citation:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Eskines of Torrie in Fife: Caird, John, "Sermons", (Edinburgh, 1858), various pages, [DH LIB 929]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=7799, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

One of a number of similarily marked volumes of sermons or of material for use in sermons, found in the collection. It is possible that they came into the library after 1870 through one of the chaplains of St Serfs, the chapel built by Magdalene Sharpe-Erskine.