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Sheep dogs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph ms from 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by James Hogg, being a leaf from the draft for 'Class IV. Dogs'

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1713
Content Description

Autograph manuscript from 'The Shepherd's Calendar', by James Hogg, 1824. It is a leaf from the draft of 'Class IV. Dogs', and is large folio size laid onto paper.


The ms has some Borders stories about dogs e.g. 'the late Mr. Steel's nephew in Peebles had a bitch [...] whose feats in taking home sheep from the neighbouring farms into the market at Peebles by herself form innumerable anecdotes in that vicinity...'.

Dates: 1824

Cases of Cruelty - letters re. experiments of animals, hen batteries, atomic bomb experiments etc. , 1938 - 1949

 File
Identifier: Coll-1618/2/4/2/2
Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence, dating from 1938-1949. The topics include the following. 1. newspaper cuttings on dog fighting in Staffordshire, 1936 2. enquiries about the fate of 250 monkeys brought to the UK from Calcutta (Kolcuta), 1949 3. Letters and copy of article on the poor treatment of sheepdogs by Richard Perry, 1946 4. Letters on the use of animals in atomic bomb experiments, 1946 5. Notes and letters on the Living Dog Experiment film from the USSR, 1944 6. A letter...
Dates: 1938 - 1949

Old English Bobtailed Sheep Dog, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1702
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an Old English Bobtailed Sheep dog standing in the grass in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s