| Evidence: | [Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin e.g. p.13 Text =: "Is the difference in the minds of men the effect of their different organisations or education? *That is the object of my inquiry". ms note =: "*In part it is, in part it is not"; p. 101 Text = "As long as man * is sensible, he has soul", ms note = "has any feeling" (in ink). P. 30 has a lengthy comment on Milton. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland or India | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Drummond Erskine |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | Apr 1776 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | East India Company Writer (Bengal) and later a landowner |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland or India |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Helvetius |
| Title: | A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. Hooper |
| Genre: | Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Hooper. W. (trans.), London: B. Law and G. Robinson, 1777 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 5540 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Helvetius; Hooper. W. (trans.), "A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. Hooper", London: B. Law and G. Robinson, 1777, [DH LIB 1058]. , |
| Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Helvetius; Hooper. W. (trans.), "A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. Hooper", London: B. Law and G. Robinson, 1777, [DH LIB 1058]. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5540, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
| The item is in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie, Fife but as with many items in the collection it appears to have had a previous owner. The identity of the annotator is thus uncertain. However the style and subject area matches with other items in the library clearly attributed to John Drummond Erskine. |
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