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Excerpt from Letters Poems: In the Devonshire Dialect
Henry baird, the popular writer of poems in the Devonshire Dialect under the nom de plume of Nathan Hogg, was a native of Exeter. In person he was short and dark, with a peculiar cast in the eye, and a depressed manner. In early life he was a Clerk in the office of Mr. Hugh M. Ellacombe, Attorney, of Exeter (elder brother of the late Rev. H. T. Ellacomre, and the last who held the office of Chamberlain of that City. Later on, baird carried on business as a Bookseller in St. Martin's Lane, Exeter, and was also connected with the local Newspaper Press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.