[Manuscript:] 'The Moments' Monument. Sonnets. Copied into this book by him.'

Bookseller Notes

Malloch was a Scottish poet and playwright, whose work was praised by Hugh MacDiarmid (who called him 'one of our greatest twenty', and dedicated to Malloch his poem 'The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch').The thirty poems in this volume were collected in a published work of the same title in 1932, by which time it had expanded to seventy sonnets.