Beautiful Glasgow : A new song /
McGonagall, William.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
ca. 1900]
In two columns with a crown above the title.
Dated from the address given on the sheet - McGonagall was still living in Dundee as late as 1894.
In verse.
Printed on the sheet are copies of two letters to McGonagall, one from Downing Street on behalf of William Gladstone, the Prime Minister (the letter is dated May 1884), the other from H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge, both letters acknowledge receipt of poems by McGonagall.
At the top of the sheet in McGonagall's hand - 'Sir Wm. Topaz McGonagall. Poet'.
First lines read: Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean, / Your stateley mansions, and beautiful Green! / Likewise your beautiful bridges across the River Clyde, / And on your bonnie banks I would like to reside.
English poetry
Glasgow (Scotland)
Glasgow (Scotland)