Evidence: | [Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of specie, at any given moment [underlined and with the word always in ms above], constitutes the capital, or a portion of the capital of many individuals *...' has ms annotation '*& hence certainly of the nation; a conclusion directly contrary to his position p.3. The function of currency is neither more nor less than the barter of one commodity for another'; p. 20 The first 2 complete paras are marked with vertical lines and have the ms annotation 'extremely inaccurate to calculate our resources from this particular branch of trade'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1803 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: | Identity of reader inferred from only provenance in the book |
Author: | John Wheatley |
Title: | Remarks on currency and commerce |
Genre: | Social Science, Science |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | London: Printed by T. Burton for Messrs. Cadell and Davies, 1803 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 7214 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Wheatley, John, "Remarks on currency and commerce", (London, 1803), various pages, [DH LIB 216], |
Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Wheatley, John, "Remarks on currency and commerce", (London, 1803), various pages, [DH LIB 216], http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7214, accessed: 31 March 2023 |
The style of the annotations and the subject field match other John Drummond Erskine items in the library. He died in 1836 and could have annotated the volume at any time between its purchase and that date. |
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