[Copy of a letter from William Motherwell to David …]

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Robertson 9/22
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1833
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 2 pp. In bound volume which belonged to David Robertson, bookseller, Glasgow, the publisher of Motherwell's Poetical works

Scope and Content

Copy of a letter from William Motherwell to David Robertson, Nov. 28, 1833, recommending John Donald Carrick, editor of the Perth Advertiser, for the position of editor of a newspaper which was about to be started in Kilmarnock. This letter was printed in M'Conechy's Memoir of Motherwell, pp. liv-lvi. Apparently collected by P.A. Ramsay with the intention of writing a life of Motherwell and producing an enlarged edition of his poems

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