Sound Advice for Scotch Reviewers

Karl Miller

The manuscripts of Henry Cockburn’s letters have been gathered together in the National Library of Scotland, where they cry out for a collected edition. When such an edition appears, they cannot fail to be recognised as a masterpiece of Scottish literature. I came, while engaged in writing a book about Cockburn, to love his letters, and I have even managed to love those which turned up too late for consideration in the book. A further letter has now arrived in the Library, from Canada.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 · 24 January 1980 » Karl Miller » Sound Advice for Scotch Reviewers (print version)
pages 14-16 | 1292 words