Anecdotes.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Short entertaining stories about real incidents or people. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:
Pocket notebooks of William Fraser containing a variety of notes on local and family history, historical anecdotes, and notes on charters and muniment rooms.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8902-8906
Dates:
1861-1883.
‘Recollections of an Old Citizen of Glasgow’, by Robert Lochore; with some verse and draft letters., Late 18th century-1851, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3585
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Recollections of an Old Citizen of Glasgow' and a number of anecdotes, perhaps all intended as part of the 'Recollections', in several drafts, many of them fragmentary; they contain much information about Glasgow in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - streets and buildings, dress, manners, superstitions, characters, and events (folio 1);(ii) Verse, 1834, undated (folio 116);(iii) Draft letters, 1851,...
Dates:
Late 18th century-1851, undated.
Two-volume glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser, son of Captain Simon Fraser of Knockie.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.1.5-73.1.6
Scope and Contents
The work is liberally illustrated with verse (fully referenced), traditions and anecdotes. On 17 May 1855 Simon Fraser calculated that it contained 2, 190 terms (1,466 + 724). On 1 July 1857 he records a slightly enlarged total of 2,210 (1,470 + 740). (Adv.MS.73.1.5, inside back cover; Adv.MS.73.1.6, folios 74 verso, 92 recto). Angus Fraser also prepared an amended copy of his father’s ‘Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands’, which was published in 1874, after Angus’s death.
Dates:
[1855, or before.]
Typescript of 'Family characters and anecdotes' by Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford., 1781.
Item
Identifier: MS.10228
Volume of embroidery patterns with a dedication on the flyleaf 'Charlotte Scott from Sarah Eliza Jessop. Dec. 8th 1831'., 1831.
File
Identifier: MS.10388
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains knitting patterns, several anecdotes, recipes and a few rough pencil sketches.
Dates:
1831.