2110-4-7-4

1 Braidburn Crescent Edinburgh.

7th Jany. 1925.

Dear Sir

I have lately had much pleasure in a perusal of your Scots anthology, "The Northern Muse".

I observe that on page 290, you include a verse entitled "Oh, gin I were a Doo", and in your commentary you say that you owe it to Mrs Jacob, who heard it in Angus. It may interest you to know that the verse is one of a set by my late father (James Logie Robertson) which was

published by him in 1905 in a collection, "Excursions in prose and verse" (Edinburgh: Geo. A. Morton). If you will refer to pp. 14, 15 & 16 of that volume you will find the whole poem "In praise of Balgeddie", Balgeddie being a small hamlet in Kinross-shire. The poem is entirely original.

Perhaps, when you revise your book for a future edition, you will be good enough to refer to the authorship.

I am

Yours very truly,

J.P. Logie Robertson

John Buchan, Esq.