Letter: 1821 Aug. 21, Sheffield, to David Laing, Princes Street, Edinburgh / J. Montgomery. 1821.

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Letter: 1821 Aug. 21, Sheffield, to David Laing, Princes Street, Edinburgh / J. Montgomery. 1821.

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Explains how he came to have an interest in the poet Montgomerie.

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University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library

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Montgomery, James, 1771-1854

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The poet James Montgomery was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, on 4 November 1771. He was sent to the Moravian school (the Moravians are a religious community) at Fulneck, near Leeds, and while there began writing poetry. Work followed in a bakery and then in a store, and then to the offices of the Sheffield Register . Facing prosecution, the proprietor and editor of the journal - a reformer - escaped to America, and Montgomery became the working editor and then the owner of the title which ...

Montgomerie, Alexander, 1545?-1598

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