| Description | Comments 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'. |