Category: Biographies
THE separate publication of this sketch has been forced upon me by the “somewhat free use” made of it in a second and thereby enlarged edition of the “little book” to which I owe my _introduction_ to Marjorie Fleming,--but nothing more; a “use” so exceedingly “free” as to exte...
THE separate publication of this sketch has been forced upon me by the “somewhat free use” made of it in a second and thereby enlarged edition of the “little book” to which I ow...
2. Part 2Braehead is the farm the historical Jock Howison asked and got from our gay James the Fifth, “the gudeman o’ Ballengiech,” as a reward for the services of his flail, when the Ki...
3. Part 3Mrs. Keir was my aunt’s name, another of Dr. Rae’s daughters.” We cannot better end than in words from this same pen: “I have to ask you to forgive my anxiety in gathering up th...