Author: SIR ROBERT THORBURN
Title: Dedicated to Samuel Mucklebackit, Esq., (Otherwise James Lumsden, of 34 Royal Park Terrace, Edinburgh)... From "somewhere far abroad, where sailors gang to fish for cod."
Description: St. John's, Newfoundland, January 1897. Slip-song, 240 x 130 mm. small repair to verso. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. The dedicatee, Samuel Mucklebackit, the pseudonym of James Lumsden [1839 - 1909], was the 'author' of several books of poetry and short tales written in a Scots' idiom in the second half of the nineteenth century. Interspersed are many essays on East Lothian localities and observations of the character and situation of the county as seen by the author. One of the puzzles of Mucklebackit/Lumsden is unravelling reality from fancy. In real life Lumsden seems to have been a larger than life character and on the page Mucklebackit even more so. But reading between the lines, there seems to be a core of reality around which the tales of Mucklebackit relate incidents in and aspects of Lumsden's own experience. See The John Gray Centre, East Lothian Council for further information. Sir Robert Thorburn [1836 - 1906] was premier of Newfoundland 1885 - 89> this seems to be his only publication and the sole copy traced is at the National Library of Scotland.

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