This book was in the possession of the Birrell family, and John Birrell, another friend of the poet, adds a testimony to the same effect. Pearson and Birrell also wrote to Dr Robert Anderson while he was publishing his "British Poets", pointing out Bruce's claims. Their communications were used by Anderson in the "Life" prefixed to Logan's works in the "British Poets" (vol. ii. p. 1029). The volume of 1770 had struck Bruce's friends as being incomplete, and his father missed his son's "Gospel Sonnets," which are supposed by the partisans of Bruce against Logan to have been the hymns printed in the 1781 edition of Logan's poems. Logan tried to prevent by law the reprinting of Bruce's poems (see James Mackenzie's "Life of Michael Bruce", 1905, chap. xii.), but the book was printed in 1782, 1784, 1796 and 1807.