Overview George Tawse, one of the founding Literary and Scientific Institute members, wrote a light-hearted and affectionate recollection of the society’s early days in 1846, in which he depicted its humble beginnings as eight or ten “mere lads”, meeting on Read More …
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Dundee Natural History and Literary Magazine (in 1848 becomes the Dundee Natural History Magazine)
Overview In the 1830s and 1840s, there appears to have been a strong connection between natural history and literature in Dundee (see also The Wreath of Wild Flowers and the Literary and Scientific Institute). This magazine divided its pages between Read More …
Gems of Poesy
Overview Gems of Poesy is an MS magazine compiled by William Gardiner, who also compiled The Wreath of Wild Flowers. The two magazines had identical publication schedules and readers’ lists, so probably served as companion volumes. Each issue is numbered Read More …
Hackney Literary and Scientific Institution Manuscript Magazine
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Hackney Literary and Scientific Institution (London) (formerly the Hackney Mutual Improvement Society) (London) Date of Existence 1848-1894? Date of Magazine Jan.-June 1857 (Vol. 2, No. VIII) (first issue possibly Read More …
The Torch
Overview Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Kirkwall Young Men’s Literary Association (later the Kirkwall Young Men’s Literary and Scientific Association?) (Orkney) Date of Existence 1857-29 Mar. 1899 Date of Magazine No. 1-No. 9, Mar. 1875-Nov. Read More …
The Wreathe of Wild Flowers
Overview This magazine is in the handwriting of William Gardiner (1809-1852), aged 25 when the first issue was compiled. Gardiner’s work appears under the pseudonym Sylvanus. All of the contributors appear under classically alluding pseudonyms, including Daphnus, Corydon and Damon, Read More …
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Overview A summary of the history of the Western Scientific Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The members of this all-male group wrote down the papers that they gave at the meetings into a Read More …
Ultima Thule; later changed to The Manuscript Magazines of the Glasgow Orkney and Shetland Literary and Scientific Association; later changed to The Pole Star
Overview A summary of the history of the Glasgow Orkney and Shetland Literary and Scientific Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). Name of Club, Society or Group That Produced the Magazine Glasgow Orkney and Read More …