‘Peter’s Letters’

In Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819)  John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of an elderly  physician ‘Dr Peter Morris’) provided a series of brilliant, sometimes serious and sometimes satirical, … Continue reading ‘Peter’s Letters’

The Cage

Recently, when delving in an archive of old newspapers, I came across this letter by ‘John of Rankleburn’ which mentioned “The Cage” in Edinburgh’s Meadows: ‘The Cage’ was situated in … Continue reading The Cage