Macneill, Hector, 1746-1818 (Scottish poet)

Scope and Contents This is an archive of late eighteenth-century Scots poetry composed of over 40 poems in the hand of Scottish poet Richard Gall (1776-1801), together with 36 poems sent to Gall by writers in his circle, and materials relating to the posthumous publication of Gall's Poems and Songs in 1819.1. Forty-seven poems by Gall (of which some unpublished), nearly all with corrections and variant readings, some present in several different copies, two in apparently...