This is so up my alley that I hesitate to reply. What
I want to know (seriously, I don't know) is what
happened to the chapters of Maginn's lost Paris
flaneur novel that Blackwood sent to Moir to vet and
which he never returned? eh?
Also, I just won a copy of Moir's "Mansie Wauch" from
somebody who trades under the name "bigbairn" in
Dundee, and I just read this footnote by Shelton
Mackenzie in his edition of the "Noctes": "D. M. Moir,
a surgeon of Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, was the
"Delta" of Blackwood's Magazine, to which he
contributed some 395 poems, about six of which are
very good" (2: 21).
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wrote:
> > No -- do I know a man who does?
> >
> > best joanna
>
> > > When it comes to Absolute Trivia, does anyone
> know just how many poems
> in
> > > the Sapphic stanza David Macbeth Moir published
> in Blackwoods Magazine
> in
> > > Edinburgh in the nineteenth century?
> > >
> > > The Canadian Boat-Singer
>
> Well, you could always ask Richard.
>
> I think there were five -- well, there were at least
> five that I know of,
> but there may have been more -- none of which DMM
> republished in his
> Collected.
>
> (Which managed all of one printing, which nowadays
> would be described as
> going straight into the remaindered section of Your
> Favourite Neighborhood
> Bookshop.)
>
> Deeply obscure.
>
> Talking of chiaroscuro (which we weren't) does
> anyone happen to know where
> the couplet:
>
> She did not speak the French of France
> But the surded French of Martinique ...
>
> ... originated?
>
> Colonel Linebarger
>
> (CIA South East Asian desk, rtd.)
>
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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