| Evidence: | [Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to show a rather crumpled East India Company employee, feet on table, flask and glass in front and smoking a hookah. (2) ms note follows the end of the dedication "... & guilty of / plagerising; but .../ of the unfortunate case of the/ author whose from this ... / and rather dull he is/ only doomed to oblivion". |
||||||||||
| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | India | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
|
||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Listener): |
|
||||||||||
| 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), later landowner |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | India |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Tennant |
| Title: | Indian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William Tennant |
| Genre: | Social Science |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Edinburgh: Printed by C. Stewart, and sold by T.N. Longman and O. Rees, and John Anderson, 1803 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 5543 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Tennant, William, "Indian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William Tennant", Edinburgh: Printed by C. Stewart, and sold by T.N. Longman and O. Rees, and John Anderson, 1803 [DH LIB 1547]. , |
| Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Tennant, William, "Indian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William Tennant", Edinburgh: Printed by C. Stewart, and sold by T.N. Longman and O. Rees, and John Anderson, 1803 [DH LIB 1547]. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5543, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
| The item is in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie, Fife The identification of the reader is based on substantial evidence from many other items in the library with John Drummond Erskine's provenance. He collected and annotated several books while serving in India but it is possible that this item was annotated once he was back in Scotland. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)