Evidence: | [Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days into two parts only Morning and Evening - the Scotch divide it into four parts Morning, Forenoon, Afternoon, & Evening'; p. 28 at foot of page 'What like is such a Thing? What appearance has such a thing?'; p.25 at foot of page 'Almost nothing. Hardly anything Ex: His house was burnt down & almost nothing [underlined] was saved & hardly anything [underlined] was saved'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799, 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, 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: | John Sinclair |
Title: | Observations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinclair |
Genre: | Language |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1782 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 6602 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Sinclair, John, "Observations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinclair", (London, 1782), various pages, [DH LIB 1255]. , |
Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Sinclair, John, "Observations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinclair", (London, 1782), various pages, [DH LIB 1255]. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6602, accessed: 21 March 2023 |
There are two other provenances in the book but the style of annotations and subject area match other JD Erskine items in the collection. If identity is corrrect the likely date of annotation is 1790s to 1836. |
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