| Description | Volume, pp 1-25 + 76 pp, containing poems, notes on Scottish Song, notes on voyage from Peterhead to Greenland by Patrick Buchan; together with cuttings of printed poems (listed below) of Rev. C. F. Buchan (pseudonym, 'Prestuteros'); comments on endpaper by William Walker.
May 1831. p1. 'The Mavis lilted on the thorn'.
18 June 1832. p2. 'The Sailor Boy' Dream'.
October 1929. p4. 'To H-- A--'.
29 September 1832. p5. 'To A. Gordon'.
9 October 1832. p6. 'To the Moon'.
28 October 1832. p7. 'To S-- S--'.
2 December 1832. p9. 'On the death of my youngest brother Alexander, aged 3 months'
19 December 1832. p10. 'To a mother on the death of her infant'.
29 December 1832. p11. 'To 1833'.
6 January 1833. p12. 'Fient a foe has I'.
16 January 1833. p14. 'Emigrant's Farewell'.
19 January 1833. p16. 'To C-- R--'.
8 April 1833. p17. 'The Departure'.
8 April 1833. p18. 'On the death and burial of David Thom Harponeer ...'.
3 May 1833. p21. ' O well I ken my own sweet lass'.
September 1834. p22. Additional verses to fragment by Robert Tannahill (in "Poems and Songs" 1832) 'Thou cauld gloomy Feberwar', (poem printed in "Whistle Binkie" (1853) ii. 96).
20 January 1841. "The Scottish Emigrant's Farewell".
Undated. "The Bereavement".
Undated. "The Departure".
Undated. "Epitaph". |