1909-David Hay Fleming.-Written for the Princeton Theological Review, this gives a biographical sketch of John Howie which includes a very useful bibliography of Howie’s writings. Fleming was a historian of extraordinary ability and an antiquary whose collection included many original copies of the works referenced.
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1907-David Hay Fleming-In this letter to Oxford lexicographer and philologist William Alexander Craigie, whose famous student, J.R.R. Tolkien, succeeded to his chair in Anglo-Saxon, at the University of Oxford. Evidently, Craigie had written to Fleming for some help with sourcing on peculiar English words, one of which was “non-hearer”, and the subject of John Howie, of Lochgoin, was discussed before Fleming moves on to other words the good professor might need.
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