The Song’s Errand

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The Song’s Errand

Poet(s)

Laird, A. (pseudonym Hugh Lindsay)
Pseudonym:
Hugh Lindsay

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 20:1014, 352, 2 June 1883.

First line

O Song! go greet her whom I may not greet

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Document status

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Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for this poem by Hugh Lindsay gives no address or payment information (NLS Dep 341/369). The Chambers’s Journal Authors’ Book entry for 5 October 1880, lists payment of 10s 6d for The Song’s Errand, and the author as Miss A. Laird, c/o A. Fowler Esq, B. L. B. K., Glasgow. Another entry for 15 October again records receipt of The Song’s Errand, per Miss Laird, with a payment of 10s 6d (NLS Dep 341/294). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7554

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Song’s Errand