Letters, poems and selected prose writings of David Gray, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1836, Buffalo, New York, 1888

2 volumes : 20 cm Includes photographic frontispiece portrait of David Gray Includes index Volume 1, Biographical memoir: Childhood at Edinburgh, 1836-1849 -- Boyhood in Wisconsin, 1849-1856 -- First years in Buffalo, 1856-1859 -- Apprenticeship in journalism, 1859-1865 -- Years of travel, 1865-1868 -- The prime of life, 1868-1882 -- Religious experience -- Last years and death, 1882-1888 -- Estimates -- Poems: The fog-bell at night -- Sir John Franklin and his crew - - The crew of The Advance -- To Glen Irish -- Outrivalled -- The lake -- Elhu Burritt -- Jeannie Lorimer -- Coming -- A march scene -- The bark of life -- From the German of Bodenstedt -- On Lebanon -- A golden wedding poem -- The soul's failure -- From the German of Bodenstedt -- Dedication in a lady's album -- To Miss Clara Louise Kellogg -- Murillo's 'immaculate conception' -- New Year greetings -- The cross of gold -- To J. H. -- Divided -- The last Indian council of the Genesee -- Communion -- A fragment -- Soft falls the gentlest of the hours -- Poem read at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Young Men's Association of Buffalo, March 22, 1861 -- A nineteenth century saint -- The chimes -- Poem read at the annual meeting of the Young Men's Association of Buffalo, February 17, 1862 -- Poem read at the opening of the new library building of the Young Men's Association of Buffalo, January 10, 1865 -- How the young colonel died -- The last of the Kah-Kwahs -- The ministry of art -- Hushed is the long roll's angry threat -- The tenth muse -- Mary Lenox: A New Year's item in verse -- Thanksgiving in war-time -- Thanksgiving day -- Rest -- Lecture and Miscellany: Robert Burns and his poetry -- Science and poetry -- Niagara Falls by winter moonlight - - The great storm -- Volume 2, Letters of travel: At sea -- London -- Through England -- Scotland -- Ireland -- Southern France -- The Riviera -- Naples -- Sicily -- Paestum and Pompeii -- Rome -- Northern Italy -- Switzerland -- Germa