Letter: 1822 Mar. 21, Sheffield, to David Laing, Edinburgh / J. Montgomery. 1822.

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Letter: 1822 Mar. 21, Sheffield, to David Laing, Edinburgh / J. Montgomery. 1822.

Discusses the poetry of Alexander Scott.

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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 ...

Scott, Alexander, 1525?-1584?

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