A collection of holograph poems and letters of two Renfrewshire poets: Robert Tannahill (1774-1810) and William Motherwell (1797-1835), from the collection of David Stephen Robertson 1805-1887

Tannahill, Robert, 1774-1810

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Motherwell William 1795-1835 poet

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Robertson, David Stephen (1874-1919: lieutenant colonel)

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David Stephen Robertson was born in Scotland in 1874 . He graduated MA from the University of Glasgow in 1895 and began a career in the army. By the time of the First World War he was a Major in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He died on 1919 at Tientsin, China, a Lieutenant Colonel in the same regiment. The connection with the Renfrewshire poets came from his family who owned David Robertson, the Glasgow publisher of William Motherwell's works. Robert Tannahill was born in 1...