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Whiteman, Bruce

Notes and Comments 
The work is attributed to Levi Stevens (d. 1832), an artist working in Montreal as early as 
1810 and who painted with a fine academic hand. His career is unfortunately, poorly docu- 
mented and at present nothing is known of his early life. He died during the cholera epidemic 
of 1832 in Toronto.' The McCord has two other signed works by this artist (MEL985.162, 
MEL98 5.163). 
The McCord Museum's portrait collection is one of the major holdings in the country and 
portrays many of the prominent Canadians of the 18th and 19th centuries. 
Note 
1. Harper, Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 
Toronto. 1970, p. 298. 
Recent Additions to the David Hume Collection 
by Bruce Whiteman 
Head, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections 
The collection of books by and about Scottish philosopher David Hume (17 1 1-1776) is one 
of the major research collections in McGill's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. 
It was begun in the late 1940s, and now contains the great majority of Hume's works in first 
editions, as well as later editions, translations, and many 18th-century commentaries on Hume. 
The book collection also contains a number of items from Hume's library with his bookplate, 
and is supplemented by a group of 50 autograph letters, mainly addressed to Hume's friend 
the Countess de Boufflers. 
The collection has benefited recently from two grants given by the Social Sciences and 
Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the first in 1989 under the "Support to 
Specialized Collections Program" and the second in 1990 under the "Fleeting Opportunities 
Program. " 
The second grant allowed the Department of Rare Books to acquire a collection of 26 pamph- 
lets and broadsides relating to the Douglas controversy of 1757 with which Hume was 
embroiled. His relative, John Home, had his play Douglas staged in Edinburgh beginning on 
December 14, 1756. Home was a clergyman, and the Church of Scotland's anathema against 
the theatre led to a controversy that produced a great many printed items. Hume himself con- 
tributed to the war by dedicating his Four Dissertations (1757) to Home, and, as Hume's biog- 
rapher has noted, "republication of the dedication in several of the weeklies and monthlies 
at both London and Edinburgh must have circulated it far beyond the sphere of those purchasing 
copies of Four Dissertations. " ' 
The Douglas-related material acquired for McGill includes a copy of the first Edinburgh edi- 
tion of the play (1757). A copy of the London edition of the same year, which may have bib- 
liographical priority (though Gerald D. Parker chose the Edinburgh edition as his copy-text 
for the 1972 scholarly edition), was already in the Department of Rare Books' collection. 
Notes and Comments 
Both sides of the controversy over Douglas are represented in the collection. As defenders 
of Home one finds, for example, Alexander Carlyle's satirical A n  Argument To Prove That the 
Tragedy of Douglas Ought to Be Publickly Burnt By the Hands of the Hangman (Edinburgh, 1757) 
and John Maclaurin's The Deposition, or FatalMiscawiage: A Tragedy (Edinburgh, 1757), a satir- 
ical play about Home's treatment by the Church. The opposing side is perhaps better repre- 
sented, and includes among other pieces The Player's Scourge; Or a Detection of the Ranting 
Prophanity and Regnant Impiety of Stage Plays, and Their Wicked Encouragers and Frequenters; 
And Especially Against the Nine Prophane Pagan Priests, Falsely Called Ministers of the Gospel, 
Who Countenanced the Thrice Cursed T ~ e d y  Called Douglas by John Haldane, apparently a 
mad upholsterer, and John Witherspoon's A Serious Enquiry Into the Nature and Effects of the 
Stage, Being an  Attempt to Show, That Contributing to the Support of a Public Theatre, Is 
Inconsistent with the Character of a Christian (both published in Edinburgh in 1757). These 
pamphlets are accompanied by a number of leaflets and broadsides of songs, poems and adver- 
tisements relating to Douglas, of which two are unrecorded and several are known in only one 
or two copies. This collection joins a bound group of eight other Douglas-related pamphlets 
acquired in 1987, avolume which bears the bookplate of Baron Hume, David Hume's nephew. 
Funds from the earlier SSHRC grant have been used to acquire 18th-century books by and 
concerning Hume, with an unpredicted emphasis on continental translations. A copy of the 
third edition (1754) of the Political Discourses was acquired (copies of the first two editions 
already formed part of the collection), as well as copies of translations into French (Discours 
olitiques de Monsieur Hume, Dresden, 1755) and Italian (Saggi politici sopra i l  commercio, 
Venice?], 1767, and Parma, 1798). A set of the uncommon Dublin edition of The History of e 
England (1772) was added to the collection, in addition to a set of a French translation unknown 
to Jessop,* published in Yverdon in 1781, and two earlier French translations of individual 
parts of the work: Histoire de la maison de Stuart sur le trone d'Angleterre (Londres, 1763) and 
Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le trone d'Angleterre (Amsterdam, 1765). Two Basle 
editions of Hume were acquired, a 1793 edition of the Essays and Tredtises on Several Subjects 
and an unauthorized 1799 edition of the Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul. Three 
other French translations were also bought: the first French edition of Hume's autobiography, 
Vie de David Hume, kcrite par lui-mgme (Londres, 1777), the 1788 "Londres" edition of the 
Oeuvres philosophiques, and the first French edition of the Essaisphilosophiques sur Pentendement 
humain, which forms part of the Oeuvres published by Schneider in Amsterdam in the years 
1758-60. 
Of the two rarest items acquired for the collection, the first is a copy of Todd's D issue3 of 
A True Account of the Behaviour and Conduct of Archibald Stewart, Esq. (London, 1748). Stewart, 
Hume's friend and benefactor and Lord Provost of Edinburgh, was accused of surrendering 
the city to the Young Pretender and was tried on 12 related charges in 1747. Hume's pamphlet 
was written in his defence, and includes a postscript added after he learned in early November 
of Stewart's acquittal.* The second piece is a copy of Sister Peg, or more fully, The History of 
the Proceedings i n  the Case of Margaret, Commonly Called Peg, Only Lawful Sister to John Bull, 
Esq. (London, 1761). The authorship of this uncommon book has been much disputed, and 
though David Raynor attributes it to Hume in his 1982 edition published by Cambridge 
University Press, many Hume scholars continue to hold that Adam Ferguson, not Hume, was 
its author. The McGill copy comes from the library of W.R. Scott, the author of a biography 
of Francis Hutcheson. 
It has proved difficult to find copies of most of the 18th-century "Humeana" lacking from 
the collection, but four interesting items have been acquired all the same. William Harris's 
A n  Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of Charles I (London, 1758) includes 
an early mention of Hume's History of England. Joseph Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical 
Unbeliever (Bath, 1780) comments extensively on Hume's treatment of natural religion, as does 
Joseph Milner's Gibbon's Account of Christianity Considered, Together With Some Strictures on 
Notes and Comments 
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (York, 1781). Finally, a copy was acquired of 
one of the earliest German works on Hume, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's David Hume uber den 
Gbuben,  oder Idealismus und Realismus (Breslau, 1787). 
The McGill Hume collection is among the very best in the world, and it continues to grow. 
The entire collection will be catalogued by mid-1991 and is available to scholars, students and 
interested persons for consultation in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. 
Notes 
1. Ernest Campbell Mossner, The Life of David Hume (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954), 
p. 362. 
2. T.E. Jessop, A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy From Francis 
Hutcheson to Lord Balfour (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966). 
3. William B. Todd, "David Hume: A preliminary Bibliography," in Hume and the 
Enlightenment: Essays Presented to Ernest CampbellMossner, ed. William B. Todd (Edinburgh: 
Edinburgh University Press, 1974), pp. 192-3. 
4. Mossner, pp. 182-6. 
Moshe Safdie's Archive 
by Irena Murray 
Head, Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art 
A key event in the development of our architecture collections took place in the Blackader- 
Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art last year. In December 1990, after four years of 
negotiations, architect, author and educator Moshe Safdie, B.Arch. '61, LL.D. (honoris causa) 
'82, signed an agreement which made the University the sole depository for the extensive archive 
of his work. When fully constituted, Mr. Safdie's archive will not only include architectural 
plans, drawings, models, slides, photographs, and office files for all his projects, but also per- 
sonal sketchbooks, manuscripts of books, correspondence, lectures, films, tapes, diskettes, 
and other research material, documenting the many aspects of Safdie's work. 
The Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC) of the Blackader Library will face the challenge 
of organizing and describing the Safdie projects, to make them accessible to students and 
researchers. In order to cope with the sheer quantity and variety of material, a series of ship- 
ments is being planned by Safdie's principal offices in Boston and Jerusalem. The first shipment, 
received in February, consisted of two Canadian projects emblematic of Safdie's career: Habitat 
'67 and the National Gallery of Canada. Close to 150 rolls of architectural drawings and prints, 
26 cartons of project files, 7 sketchbooks, as well as small architectural modes of the National 
Gallery spaces provide a unique insight in the creative process of the author of Beyond Habitat, 
For Everyone a Garden, Form and Purpose, The Harvard Jerusalem Studio, Beyond Habitat by 
Twenty Years, and, most recently, Jerusalem: The Future of the Past. 


Recent Additions to the David Hume Collection

Complete Vol 3 (1990)

Frost, Stanley Brice

Frank Cyril James: The Principal Years

Contributors 
David Berg r cei eo his Jocwracc in car Eastern tutlic · (Egyptian Lan •uage and Litcraru rc) 
fr m th ni r ity of Toronto in 1988. He was a Re · arch fellow of the Redpath luseu m 
durin th 1988-89 acatl · mic year and is pre ·end) a ocial ~ cience. and Humanities Re .. earch 
un il F Jlo, at ch am in riwtion . 
Paul Carle Madeleine Dufresne, et Alain iongeau ont m mbr I r ch rche 
n valuation o ial d t hn logi ( RE T) d l' niv r it . du Qu ' b ; Montr . a t ( QAM). 
Lynne Teath r o uvr a u Mu um cu li Prog ram le I' nivcr ic ' de Toronto. I.e travai l 
d r h r h d nt qu lque r · ulcat one pre cnrc · 1 · 1, ccc rcndu po ·iblc par unc sub-
enc ion Ju onsc il Je rc her he en · · icr) ·c humai nc (CR J 0. obt nuc par Pal Carle po ur 
ann 1987 c t 1988. 
'lary Cyr i a pt· fc or in th ' ·acult ·of Mu i . h ob tai n d a Ph . D . in mu i in 19 - f1·om 
the ni e rs ity of California Berke ley. As a viola d a gamba so loist, she has performed xt n-
ively in Eu rope and orch America and has re<.:ordcd for Cambridge a nd McGill Re<.:ord . 
he has ' ritt n a rticle on 18th-<.:cntur) s ing ing. Jean-Philippe Hamcau 's opera', and th hi ~­
cory of the iola da gamba, and ha · edit d the /~eli! motels of Fran ·oi · Ma rt in (Madison: A-R 
Edition , 1988). 
Leon del "rit rand educator. ann I d M ill (M.A . '2 ')an I w a a Qu be pro in ·ial 
cholar at th orbonn ( o t· ur· · -1 ttr 1932). W' ith Fntnk ocr and A. J. L mirh he 
' a a founding m m r of th fc ill f ortnigbtly l~eriew ( 1925-2 ). H i wo rk in biographical 
ch o ry and lit rary p : ho logy i rc fl c · t ·d in l .ilerrtry BiogrrtfJb)' (Toronro Th · lcxander 
I. cure L95 ). \. riling Ures ( 198 ) and tn[ftif . leefu wd Ore nns ( 19. _).His P u litzer Pri ze 
life of I r nry Jamc · in fi e vol umes al o won the a rio nal Book Award and , as one volume, 
the ational Rook ririe a \ a rd and has ju. r been tran ·laced in France. Elect •d to the merican 
Academv of Arc and Le tte rs he i. al. o a Fellow of rhe Roval . ocierv of Li te rature (GB). H 
h~ writ~cn muc h on Canadian subject · fo r Canadian jour~a l · a nd (s preparing a collection 
of these es ays. 
tan.ley Brie Fro t joined M ·Gill n ive r ·it}' in 19-6 a · Profe " Or of ld T • ·cament LanguagE: 
and Li te rature a nd during the next tWO d ecade ' became intimately anu uniquely con ·c rned 
with the admini ·cration and dire ·cion of the niver ·icy. II<:"" · appointed Dean of the ra ·ulty 
of Divinit)' in 19- , D ean of th ra ulty of Graduac ' tudie. and Re. ca r ·h in 1963, and i 
Prin ipal (Admini tracion) in 19 0. am d Dir tor of the H i. cory of 1\'t Gill Proj tin 19 
he ha. b en the moving . piric in th organ ization of the popul ar J a m . Me ,ill . oci ty . erving 
a it . cu tiv r cary from che b gi nn ing. Hi. publi acion, in lud Old 'test nnenl 
Apowlyptic and . ltlnding tllld nd rsltwdin(!., and che rwo vo lu m of rh t ill h i tory, 19 0 
and 19 4 . A biog•·ap hy o )' ril J ame i fo nh orning. 
Adam Gac k, an ti ·of Poland , recciv 'd h i · M. . in r i ·neal Philolo,gy from rh • J agi ·llonian 
niver ·ic y, 'ntco,v, and ·ub ·cqu >ntly a po ·r-g radu at ' diploma in Library ci ·nc ' from th 
Pol t ' Chni c of orth Lo ndon. He work ·d a t rh • 'chool of Orien tal and Afr ican rudie , 
ni r it of London, and the In t itu t · of I ~maili t.ud ie:: · , London, and i · the au thor of cwo 
a talog uc of Ara bi · manus ripe produ ed for the abo,·c in ·cic ution . He jo in d M ,ill 
ni e r. icy in 19H wh r he o upi . rh po-ition of H ad Librari an in ch J lami . rudie 
Library. 
Daniel Gennan r 
H th n r e t 
r car her in rraw a. 
i I hi B .A. a nd ·LA . in hismrv from the n ivc rsi rvof. a. katche' an. 
M. L.l.. . from McGill n1 cr~Hy . He is pre enriy an ind p nd nt 
16.) 
Pamela Miller i th Archi i. t at th M · orcl Mu ·eum of anadian Hi ' tory. h recei ed 
her B.A. (Honour ·) in anad ian Hi cory fr rn M Gill in 1966. Two year later h obtained 
her Academi Po tgradu. te D iploma in Archiv Administration from ni er iry oll , 
london. he work d f, ron ear in the Ar ·hi c · of the Hlld on' Bay C rnpany, London . 
In 19 I he j in d ch Archi . a t the Me ,ord Mu ·eum . 
Robert Vogel ha ·· be ill ince l9S2 wh n he ame to do hi · 1a ter· degr wich 
Prof. H. . fieldh u tay d to do a Do ·co rate ' hile reaching at ir George '\ illianr 
Colleg and th n join d the Hi. tory De partment a a prof< or in 1958. II tea h · European 
and Briti h Hi cor. wich a pecial rnpha ' i ' on Diploma ·y and ~ lar in th 20th · ntur . 
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Contributors

Miller, Pamela J.

"When There Is No Vision, the People Perish." The McCord Family Papers, 1766–1945

Berg, David

The Archaeological Context of the Egyptian and Nubian Antiquities in the Redpath Museum

Gascon, France

Un héritage métis

Edel, Leon

Frank Scott and the Canadian Literary Renaissance

Carle, Paul

Dufresne, Madeleine

Mongeau, Alain

Teather, Lynne

Le mouvement de modernisation des musées scientifiques au XXe siècle : le cas du Musée Redpath de l'Université McGill

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