"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.
Scope and Contents
Album containing.
(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.)
(ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a copy' (folio 13 verso).
(iii) List of the essays with the names of the authors, 1776-1779. (Folio 14 verso.)
(iv) Duncan's scroll copy of the list, found loose and inserted. (Folio 18.)
(v) Scroll lists of the essays read by the brothers Robert and Andrew Foulis. (Folio 22.)
Dates
- Creation: 1764-1779.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
27 Leaves ; Quarto.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
iv + 23 folios.
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid of the Reid Fund.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, 1944.
Bibliography
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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