Talk by J. D. Scott
J. D Scott discusses the book of this title, published in Edinburgh in 1819, which caused a stir by its brilliant portraits of contemporary Scottish personalities. ' Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk' (recently republished) was ostensibly written by a Peter Morris , but its real author was John Gibson Lockhart , later to become famous as the biographer of Burns and Scott.
followed by an interlude at 9.15