Tweedside Echoes and Moorland Musings: [poems]

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Covers slightly marked, corner of upper cover bumped, perhaps sometime neatly recased; all edges gilt. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Mr D. McDonald with The author's kindest regards Xmas 1892". The writer of The Thirty-Nine Steps' father's first book. In 1881, when Tweedside Echoes was published, John Buchan (1847-1911) had been for three years Minister of the Free Church of Scotland at the John Knox Church, Glasgow; he was still there at Christmas 1892. But his father, also John Buchan (1811-1883), had been a banker at Peebles, on the Tweed, and his mother, Violet (née Henderson) came from Peebles; his wife, Helen (née Masterton) came from Broughton, close to Tweedsmuir. Their son, the third and best-known John Buchan (1875-1940), who in 1892 had just gone to Glasgow University, would inject Tweedside background into his own early books such as Scholar Gipsies (1896), John Burnet of Barns (1898) and Grey Weather (1898), and took Tweedsmuir as his title in 1935. The Tweed was in the Buchans' blood. "Oh for a blink o' the dear auld toun, / Ae glance o' the siller Tweed; / For this dry an' nitherin' southern win', / Oh, it's like to be my deid" (from "The Settler's Wish", p.23). "My father," remembered the third John Buchan in Memory Hold-the-Door (1940), "had a notable memory for poetry and could repeat every Border ballad that was ever printed and many still unpublished . . . It was odd that he should have been by profession a theologian, for he was wholly lacking in philosophical interest or aptitude.". N° de ref. del artículo T100121

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