CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 2303/3/20
TitleLetter: Thomas Mathers, St. Monance, Fife to William Scott, bookbinder, Peterhead
Date15 June 1844
Extent1 item
DescriptionComments on copy of 'Register' sent with lengthy extract from one of Mathers' letters to Alexander Roger, ed. of 'Whistle- Binkie' (1853); mentions death of father-in-law, William Thomson on 1 June and gives news of other venacular poets , William Thom of Inverurie, David Vedder, Robert Gilfillan, David Robertson.
Note by William Walker describes Mathers as 'The fisherman poet of St. Monance'.
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