[Sir Robert Thorburn, Premier of Newfoundland.] Poem 'Dedicated to Samuel Mucklebackit, Esq., (Otherwise James Lumsden, of 34 Royal Park Terrace, Edinburgh)'.

Printed on one side of a 21 x 9 cm slip of watermarked laid paper. Aged and creased. Headed: 'Dedicated | to | Samuel Mucklebackit, Esq., | (Otherwise James Lumsden, of 34 Royal Park Terrace, Edinburgh), | by | Sir Robert Thorburn, K.C.M.G., | Ex-Premier of Newfoundland, | From | “Somewhere far abroad, where sailors gang to fish for cod.”' Place and date at bottom left. Forty-line poem, beginning: 'I hae yer buik, ma canty frien', | An's read it wi' great pleasure, | So may yer muse be ever bricht, | Nor scrimpit in her measure!' Concludes: 'Wi' food eneuch, an' claes to boot, | Then let us be contented; | O' life we are but tenants here, | So be our time weel tented ! - (Amen!)' Uncommon, only three copies on OCLC WorldCat, one at the National Library of Scotland, one at Yale, and one in Canada. At the time of writing Lumsden was sending unsolicited copies of his publications to prominent Scots, after his family had been ruined and forced to leave their farm at Nether Hailes, East Lothian, as a result of the agricultural depression.