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Title: Look Up Janet Reid at Dundee Library
Post by: Bookman on Friday 24 October 08 11:29 BST (UK)

I am searching for broadsides of poems by Janet Reid of Carnock or of Bridge of Allan dating from the 1840s. These are printed on single leaves of paper with a decorative border which she sold on the streets of towns in the Centre Belt of Scotland. She always put her name and home on them at the foot of the poem.

I am told that there is a collection of "Harvey broadsides" in the Central Library at Dundee probably in the Reference Section. Is there anyone who normally visits the library who would be willing to look at this please to see if it contains any broadsides with poems by Janet Reid?

Bookman (in the South of England)

Title: Re: Look Up Janet Reid at Dundee Library
Post by: breaky on Friday 24 October 08 15:31 BST (UK)

Hello Bookman

I wonder if you have the Broadside entitled "On a comfortable cup of tea" from the Scran website at

www.scran.ac.uk

Breaky

Title: Re: Look Up Janet Reid at Dundee Library
Post by: Bookman on Friday 24 October 08 17:27 BST (UK)

Hi Breaky,
Yes, I know that one - it's available free on the National Library of Scotland website click broadsides and look through The Word on the Streets. But thanks all the same.
Bookman