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Record 5542

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Marginalia]: copious annotations throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin but some are new entries inserted at the appropriate alphabetical slot. Contents vary from simple additions of dates of death, marriage etc to more detailed notes, mainly dated 1836-38. e.g. p. 534 "To Asia/ 8 yrs" [&] " Egypt - Arabia - Turkey - Archipelago" [refers to entry for Major Sir Grenville Temple]; "Ordered by Louis Philippe to quit Bayone in 24 hours for meeting the mercenary ... of the Whigs. Earliest .... = Constructive Treason Jany 37" [refers entry for Viscount Ranelagh]
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1836 and 1841
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:James Ker
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Edmund Lodge
Title: The peerage of the British Empire, as at present existing, arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility ? to which is added a view of the baronetage of the three kingdoms
Genre: Heraldry, Biography, Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Fifth edition, London: Saunders and Otley, 1836
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5542  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Lodge, Edmund, "The peerage of the British Empire, as at present existing, arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility ? to which is added a view of the baronetage of the three kingdoms", Fifth edition, London: Saunders and Otley, 1836 [DH LIB 1169].,

Citation: Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Lodge, Edmund, "The peerage of the British Empire, as at present existing, arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility ? to which is added a view of the baronetage of the three kingdoms", Fifth edition, London: Saunders and Otley, 1836 [DH LIB 1169]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5542, accessed: 24 April 2024

Additional comments:

The item is in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie, Fife The identification of the reader is inferred from evidence used for the tentative identification of the reader of a very similar item in the Library (RED ID=5538). The dates rule out John Drummond Erskine but do allow for Magdalene Sharpe Erskine.

 

 

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