The Highland piper's advice to drinkers : to which are added Home, sweet sweet home Wallace's lament. Connel and Flora. Here is the glen. Oh hey Johny lad, and Charlie is my darling..
Weir, J. L.,active 1954,former owner.StEdNL RB.s.1958(13)
Nairne, Carolina Oliphant Nairne,Baroness,1766-1845.Charlie is my darling.
Airdrie. : Printed by J. & J. Neil, bookbinders, and printers, no. 21 High Street, where may be had a variety of song, toy and school books, cards &c.,
[1840?]
In verse.
Home sweet home : 'Sea to music by Bishop' p. 3.
Wallace's lament : 'Tune - Maids of Arrochar' p. 4.
Connel and Flora : 'Set to music by Bishop' p. 5.
Woodcut on title page.
Suggested approximate date from internal evidence.
'Wallace's lament' about Sir William Wallace (d. 1305).
'Charlie is my darling' about Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender; Lady Carolina Nairne known to be the author of this poem.
Provenance: 1 of 26 works bound in a volume with manuscript inscription on front pastedown: Ex libris J. L. Weir.
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
Wallace, William, Sir, -1305.
Songs, Scots
Scotland Airdrie.