Letter from S. R. Crockett

The letter is dated 3 [February] 1894 and was written at Glenhead of Trool, Bargrennan, Galloway by S. R. Crockett. It begins, 'Dear Sir' and he writes that he is 'exceedingly obliged for your kind and courteous letter about Sir Uchtred'. The points noted by the correspondent 'have been put right [...] in the second edition'. The letter then continues about the Covenant and Covenanter.

Novelist Samuel Rutherford Crockett was born in Little Duchrae, near New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, on 24 September 1860. He studied at Edinburgh University, at Heidelberg, and at Edinburgh's New College, graduating from Edinburgh University in 1879. He entered the Free Church of Scotland in 1886 and was a minister for some years in Penicuik , Midlothian. Early novels included The stickit minister(1893) and The lilac sunbonnet(1894). Crockett's work is of the "Kailyard" or "Kitchen garden" school of writing. Other work includes: The raiders (1894), Red cap tales(1904), The men of the mountain (1909), and The moss troopers (1912). Samuel Rutherford Crockett died in Tarascon, near Avignon, France, on 21 April 1914

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Material acquired March 2013. Accession no: E2013.44.

Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie 09 August 2013

Also within Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library, are Samuel Rutherford Crockett items gathered under Coll-183.