David:
I'd meant to get back to you on this earlier, but my attention-span
is shot ...
I've got photocopies of DMM's Blackwoods Sapphics (heteronymed "Delta") that
I could scan and send to you, if you'd like.
Also (though I imagine you will have this) the Chadwych Healy English Poetic
Text Database of his collected.
On the other specifics you raise, I can't help you, as you know more than
me.
:-)
Have I got this wrong or didn't Moir also get tangled-up in the "Who is the
Real Ettrick Shepherd?" game that Hogg, another flaneur (lovely word!) was
playing, or had played on him?
Have you seen the entry in the new DNB on Moir? I don't have access to it,
so dunno what it might say.
Cheers,
Robin
{Hey, an odd coincidence, the first poem I ever got paid for was published
in Stand -- 1966 I think.
R.}
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Latane" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Out of nowhere ...
> 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).
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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