THE petticoated.com LIBRARY
AND ARCHIVES
Librarian and curator:
Saffron
Opening Hours
Wednesdays 1-3pm
Fridays 10am-12pm
Other times by appointment
only.
Please note that the
library's function is the preservation of archival material. It is not
open to the general publick, and the times given above refer to the managerial
staff only. If I wish to obtain access to the stacks outside these hours,
then I must make an appointment with Saffy, who regards the curatorial
preservation of petticoated.com's historical records as of a good deal
more importance than my powers as publisher - an attitude of which, incidentally,
I entirely approve.
Nevertheless Saffy has
relented somewhat, and has permitted electronic access to our material
by non-company persons, and that is what this page is here for. As he sits
in the sepulchral silence of the library's inner sanctum, bent over
his cobwebby oaken desk, pot of jet black ink to his right, and goose quill
writing scratchily on a sheet of foxed and yellowed paper, limned
by nothing more than a guttering, wax-encrusted candle, amidst the bewitched
hush of the Rare Books stacks, one feels that our
invaluable papers are in good hands.
Researchers can gain access
to the letters from the 'Contents' page, or the cover of the relevant issue.
It would be unwieldy - and unnecessary - to link to each letter from the
tables here. There
are also puzzles and games in the Christmas Annuals which are not linked
to here. However, if you feel that Saffy has omitted something, please
write to him at saffron200@hotmail.com.
Susan MacDonald
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PICTORIAL
SECTION
The
Petticoat Discipline Art of Paul
Petticoating
Posters by Janet
Petticoating
Posters by Christeen
Petticoating
Posters by Mary Beth Sanford
The Buster
Brown Comics from Anne and Timmy
No
1: Buster Brown Puts on Girl's Clothes
No
2: Buster Brown's Experience with Matches
No
3: Buster Brown in London
No
4: Buster Brown Paper Dolls
Every Boy's Fancy Dress-Up Book by Violet Elisabeth Bott
Part
1: The Nursery
Part
2: The Kindergarten
Part
3: The Uniform Parade
Mary Beth and Jacqueline's Pretty Patterns
Part
One
Part
Two
Part
Three
Part
Four
SERIES
DUMMY DISCIPLINE
DIGEST
KILTS AND SILKS
(Paper copies only
held in our archives)
Published by Petticoat
Publishing, owner and editor Miss Susan MacDonald, as an annual from 1963
to 1968,
except 1964 and
1967.
Volume 1 1963
Kilt and Petticoat
Discipline: pre-War Memories of Five Edinburgh Men
Poachers and Gamekeepers
of the Nineteenth Century Highlands
William Macgonagall
- Scotland's greatest poet recitalist
The Loch Ness Monster
in Fact and Fancy
REGULAR FEATURES
Correspondence on
Kilting and Petticoating
Patterns: a pattern
for a jaunty tartan beret suitable for girls or boys
Photographs from Scottish
Weddings
Scottish Country Seats:
Abbotsford House
How to Make your Pennies
Go Further: butter-spreading advice from the Aberdeen Infirmary
Volume 2 1965
An interview with
Andy Stewart
Scottish Ghosts and
the Secret Room of Glamis Castle
The Rarest of Single
Malts - a few of the Highlands' smaller distilleries
REGULAR FEATURES
Correspondence on
Kilting and Petticoating
Patterns: Pageboy
Special - a pattern for a pair of lace-trimmed silk drawers
Photographs from Scottish
Weddings
Scottish Country Seats:
Glen House
How to Make your Pennies
Go Further: decorative uses for broken crockery
Volume 3 1966
Roamin' in the Gloamin'
- an interview with Kenneth MacKellar
Lesser Signal Boxes
of the Caledonian Railway System
The Swirl of the Kilt
- the words to all those rousing Scottish songs that you couldn't understand
on record
Tartans and Jabots
REGULAR FEATURES
Correspondence on
Kilting and Petticoating
Patterns: a boy's
ruffled blouse with velvet cravat
Photographs from Scottish
Weddings
Scottish Country Seats:
Traquair Castle
How to Make your Pennies
Go Further: soaking off unfranked postage stamps
Volume 4 1968
The Greatest Drinking
Song of Them All - Will Fyfe's 'I Belong to Glasgow'
Shakespeare's 'Scottish
Play' and the Femme Fatale
Iona and the Celtic
Christian Heritage
Memorable Kilt Films:
'Tunes of Glory' with Alec Guinness and John Mills
REGULAR FEATURES
Correspondence on
Kilting and Petticoating
Patterns: make your
own kilts
Photographs from Scottish
Weddings
Scottish Country Seats:
Baltersan Tower House
How to Make your Pennies
Go Further: recipes from haggis left-overs by Mrs Heather MacDougall of
Perth
'Kilts and Silks'
was Petticoated's first publication. When, after many years of struggle,
it folded before the 1969 Annual could be published, the keenest loss that
I felt was the cessation of the series on Scottish country houses. I have
done some searching, and I have found sites that deal with those houses
covered in the four editions of 'Kilts and Silks':
Abbotsford
House
Glen
House
Traquair
Castle
Baltersan
Tower House
Saffy has permitted
this photograph of an arrangement of some of our oldest and most prized
volumes.
However, because
of the possibility of light damage in the long term, cameras are forbidden
within the
polished walnut
shelves of the library.
Isle of the Dead
by Hans Bocklin
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