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HOUG/D/D/20/15/encl. No. 7
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Copy of letter from Ann Gray to Robert Buchanan
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- 8 Sept. 1865 [date of original] (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Merkland, Kirkintilloch. - Glad Buchanan's publisher [Alexander Strahan] entrusts the new edition [of her son's works] to Macmillan; asks Buchanan to return David's work to Mr Freeland for assessment by Lord Houghton, Mr Hedderwick and Sheriff Bell; hopes Buchanan will assist in promoting the book when it is published; [no signature].
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- Gray, Ann (b 1812), née Cloggie, mother of poet David Gray (Subject)
- Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901), poet and novelist (Subject)
- Strahan, Alexander (1833–1918), publisher (Subject)
- Gray, David (1838-1861), poet (Subject)
- Macmillan, Alexander (1818-1896) publisher (Subject)
- Freeland, William (1828-1903), writer and journalist (Subject)
- Hedderwick, James (1814-1897), journalist and poet (Subject)
- Bell, Henry Glassford (1803-1874), lawyer, poet and historian (Subject)