| 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'. |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1787 and 1836 | ||||||||||
| 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, later landowner |
| Religion: | unknown |
| 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: | James Beattie |
| Title: | Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order |
| Genre: | Language |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, London, 1787 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| 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/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6469, accessed: 31 May 2023 |
| 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. |
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