Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Album, compiled by a member of the Erskine family, containing sundry papers including one in hand of David Hume and papers of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11353
Dates:
circa 1829.
"Section 7. Fourth Objection", a fragment of a philosophical manuscript of David Hume.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10805
Scope and Contents
Part of a previously unknown early work analysing the problem of evil, possibly a portion of a sequel to the "Treatise of Human Nature", and also anticipating arguments advanced in the "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion".
Dates:
circa 1739-1740.