Some few months ago there was published in Edinburgh the first collected
and only complete edition of the _Poems_ by the three brothers "Sir
James, Robert, and Francis Sempill of Beltrus," better known as the
authors of "The Pack-Man's Paternoster; or, a Picktooth for the Pope,"
"The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, Piper of Kilbarchum," "The
Blythsome Wedding," "Maggie Lauder," &c., with biographical notices of
their lives. I am now anxious to know if any of your numerous
correspondents can inform me if copies of the original editions of the
_Poems_ by "Robert Sempill" can be procured, or if they are in any of
the public or private libraries in England? The following are what I am
in quest of, viz.: