| Description | Manuscript containing transcript by Allan of 'Peter of Barnet', a poetic parody in the style of Robert Southey penned by the Scottish poet James Hogg and published in 'The Poetic Mirror: or the Living Bards of Britain', (1816), alongside parodies of the poetry of Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wilson and Southey. The manuscript also contains a 47 verse ballad, possibly by Hugh Allan of Cummineston entitled, 'The Kirk O'Lora's Testment'. A postscript to the latter poem begins "The foregoing Poem may be called the real state of the Church of Scotland dince Christianity was first introduced ..." Signed by Hugh Allan. |