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  Re: The Heart of Bruce
Aytoun was responsible for "The Heart of Bruce" but the story about the two dogs (Help and Hold) is somewhat apocryphal - no more than a lovely legend about a master and his love of his hounds (something which I may have inherited because dogs have always played an important part in my life).
William Sinclair with his brother, John, gave their lives life whilst carrying the heart of Robert the Bruce to the Holy Land.
Sir William Sinclair (the father of William Sinclair) as he was a contemporary of Bruce.
sinclair.quarterman.org /sinclair/archive/1999/msg02490.html   (501 words)

  
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Williams, an English poet and writer, lived in France after 1788, reporting on the French Revolution and its aftermath.
Description: Letter, 25 November 1854, from William Edmondstone Aytoun to J. Hozier, Balliol College, Oxford, declining a dinner invitation.
Description: Letter from Irish poet, painter, economist, and journalist George William Russell to John Quinn, New York, introducing Clement Shorter and describing their common interests.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/m/Misc.Foreign_Letters   (1646 words)

  
 Queenslanders in the Boer War - 4th Contingent
AYTOUN Andrew Lieutenant-Colonel Invalided to Australia arriving in December 1900; Mentioned in despatches in 'London Gazette' 10/9/1901; D.S.O.; Queen's Medal with clasps BAGLIETTO Eugene Private....
BUTLER William Private Died of heart disease at Bloemfontein 26/1/1901 BUTTERWORTH Archibald William Lieutenant Promoted to Captain 18/11/1900; Invalided to England in January 1901; Queen's Medal with clasps CALLER Albert Private....
KELLAWAY William John Lieutenant Severely wounded at Grasfontein 13/2/1901; Queen's Medal with 4 clasps KELLY Michael Augustine Private....
members.iinet.net.au /~perthdps/military/bor-qld4.htm   (1912 words)

  
 Authentic Campaigner Website & Forums - period literature
The most important book of the decade (maybe the century) was Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly,1852, by Harriet Beecher Stowe This book became phenomenally popular and dramas of the story of Uncle Tom and Eliza were played by traveling companies throughout the country.
Religious tracts (brochures) were everywhere in the nineteenth century and anti-abolition tracts began being published in both the north and south.A novel, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There by Timothy Shay Arthur, promoted temperance and sold over 1,000,000 copies in the first few years of publication..
The Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers by William Edmondstone Aytoun (1813-1865)
www.authentic-campaigner.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3243   (2186 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Oxford poetry anthologies
Auden - William Edmonstoune Aytoun - Joel Barlow - O.
Henry Aldrich - William Allingham - Drummond Allison - John Amner - Matthew Arnold - W.
Cunningham - George Daniel - Sir William Davenant - John Davies of Hereford - W.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Oxford_poetry_anthologies   (778 words)

  
 POEMS CONCERNING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS ETC.
This section focusses on lesser known poets, except for William Morris and Matthew Arnold.
The authors were Sir Theodore Martin (1816-1909) and William Edmondstone Aytoun (1813-1865).
Martin had previously published a number of parodies in magazines using the nom de plume of Bon Gaultier (a name culled from Rabelais) and these led Aytoun to seek an introduction to him.
www.geocities.com /dagonet_uk/poetry.htm   (3034 words)

  
 RWE Influences - English/American Poets of the 1800's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William Roscoe's The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, a children's classic
William Wordsworth's The River Duddon and Vaudracour and Julia
: William Wilfred Campbell (Canada); Edith Nesbit; Sir William Watson
www.rwe.org /pages/poets_english-american_1800-1899.htm   (4063 words)

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