Letter: 1828 Aug. 26, Aberdeen, to David Laing, 49 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh / P. B. [Peter Buchan]. 1828.

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Letter: 1828 Aug. 26, Aberdeen, to David Laing, 49 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh / P. B. [Peter Buchan]. 1828.

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Informs Laing that he did not go to London as planned because most of the people he wished to meet had gone to the country. He also sends newly printed copies of Macbeth for Laing and others.

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University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library

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University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library

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Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854

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Peter Buchan (1790-1854) was a Scottish ballad collector, historian, printer, and publisher. He was born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the only son of Janet and Peter Buchan. As a young man he embarked on a number of walking tours of northeast Scotland, collecting a great number of songs and ballads. In 1816 he set-up the first printing shop in Peterhead . He is best known as one of the most important early collectors of folk-songs and folk-tales in Scotland. Two resulting publications from his b...