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References
- ↑ Gillian Hughes, James Hogg: A Life (Edinburgh, 2007), 89.
- ↑ Of the 15 pieces by Cunningham at least 14 had also appeared in The Scots Magazine: James Hogg, The Forest Minstrel, ed. P. D. Garside and Richard D. Jackson (Edinburgh, 2006), xlii.
- ↑ Hughes, op. cit., 90.
- ↑ Garside and Jackson, op. cit., xlvii.
- ↑ Garside and Jackson, op. cit., Notes, passim.
- ↑ The Scots Magazine, 72 (1810), 604‒09.
- ↑ The Critical Review, 3rd series, 22 (1811), 139‒44.