| Evidence: | [Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbers of crew, dates and costings. There are also copious marginal notes, connected to deleted lines of text: eg. p.25 has lines 2-9 deleted and in the margin 'It is proposed to obtain by contribution the sum of ?32000 the sum required for building & equipping the vessel; and x[ie continue with the text]' |
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| Reader: | Anon |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | unknown |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | unknown |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Anon |
| Title: | Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipment of a frigate to be employed in sailing between London and Calcutta; touching at the Cape of Good Hope; for the conveyance of passengers only |
| Genre: | Social Science, Science |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: W. McDowall, 1824 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 7500 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife, "Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipment of a frigate to be employed in sailing between London and Calcutta; touching at the Cape of Good Hope; for the conveyance of passengers only", (London,1824), various pages, [DH LIB 1288]., |
| Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife, "Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipment of a frigate to be employed in sailing between London and Calcutta; touching at the Cape of Good Hope; for the conveyance of passengers only", (London,1824), various pages, [DH LIB 1288]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7500, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
| It is possible that the annotations have some connection with John Drummond Erskine who was the main book collector, served in Bengal with the East India Company and retained a strong interest in related affairs but the work does not have his usual provenance. |
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