An elegy and epitaph on the death of that well-known individual Boby Auld. : With an account of his death in the Royal Infirmary on Monday last 30th July occasioned by an accident..
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1827?]
Beginning of text: For a number of years, the greater part of the inhabitants of Edinburgh must have been familiar with the sight of an idiot on the streets, well known to the boys by the name of Bobby [sic] Auld.
On Robert Kirkwood, who died 30 July 1827; see An authentic narration of the life and death of Robert Kirkwood, better known by the name of Boby Awl, an idiot, who strolled about Auld Reekie and its vicinity (Edinburgh, 1829)
First line of elegy: Spirit, leave thine house of clay.
First line of epitaph: Asleep beneath this humble sod.
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Kirkwood, Robert, -1827.
Scotland Edinburgh.