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The letter and poem are contained in an envelope tipped into a copy of "Songs of Angus" (1915) which originally belonged to Alexander Keith, the recipient of the letter. `Rejected` was published in "More Songs of Angus" (1918).

The letter-date of circa 1930 was suggested by the donor as the Kirriemuir address is where Violet Jacob lived for a preiod in the 1930s.

Scope and Contents Letters to Ian A Gordon, who was then working in the English Department of the University of Edinburgh. He was subsequently Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Wellington, New Zealand.The letters concern permission to use quotations from poems in a lecture on ‘Modern Scots Poetry’. This lecture was subsequently published in 'Edinburgh Essays on Scots Literature: being a course of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh by members of the...