Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Banker, company secretary, and poet. Pseudonym: Matthew Gotterson. Born in Jedburgh. Married Margaret Boa in 1855. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for the poem Spring, published on 21 February 1880, lists Smail as a Banker from Galashiels (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: https://www.rbs.com/heritage/people/james-smail.html (20 June 2019). (AC)