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Gardiner (501 4196, 17), Motherwell indicates that he is working on a study of the Sempills, an early literary family. A. Ramsay. In addition, he intended to write an introduction to the Memorabilia of the City of Glasgow from Burgh Minute Books with notices of history and manners by one James Hill, which was first published in the Courier. One of the crowning achievements of the Glasgow years, however, was the publication in 1832 of a collection of his poems—Poems, Narrative and Lyrical—a collection subsequently edited in 1847 by McConechy and reprinted multiply with various alterations both in Boston and the West of Scotland, attesting to the esteem with which his poetry was held, especially at midcentury.
Reforming, but woefully ignorant, patrons” (2 [1831–32]: 264). , 276–77). ). The Loyal Reformer’s Gazette responds with the blast, “How many Tory fibs has he told since he managed the Glasgow Courier? . ). And, in general, the Gazette thought very little of Tories, describing the generic Tory in a poem as a “political drone, that lives, at his ease / On the honey that’s gather’d by hard-working bees” (2 [1831–32]: 139). The obituary notice comes then out of a four- or five-year opposition to Motherwell, the Tory position on the reform bill, and other issues of the day, and it suggests that Motherwell’s position and political views were recognized, that Motherwell had indeed become a political figure.
Elsewhere he calls it “The Paisley Garland” and describes his plans to publish it in an edition of fifty; present taste being different, these texts, he avers, not printed before, nevertheless mirror the past (40: 4). Motherwell found time to contribute to the Paisley Advertiser, a conservative newspaper begun in 1824 of which he was part owner even before he became editor in 1828. Perhaps in connection with his “real” work, he translated and deciphered charters relating to law cases against the town council and made a plan of fifteenth-century Paisley.
