George Lackie envelope note, 24 April 1914
Envelope
This postcard contains a playful handwritten verse directing a letter to Scottish music hall performer Geordie Lackie while he was appearing in Linlithgow. Praising Lackie as a “bag-pipe squeezing star”.
Object details
- Object type
- Envelope
- Production date
- Apr 1914
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 12.0 cm
- Museum number
- 650(26)
Source collection
Local History Centre Poster Collection, Dundee Central Library
The object’s story
Object Description
Blank on reverse.
Donated by Gwen Whyte, who inherited them from her late aunt, who had been a neighbour of Lackie’s in Balmore Street, Dundee.
Transcription
Tak’ this letter to LINLITHGOW
Where SCOTT’S PICTURES famous are
Give it there to GEORDIE Lackie
That bag-pipe squeezing STAR.
A’ the tanners wull be rushin’
Wi’ the tanners in their han’
Just to hear the Hielant laddie
Just to see this GOBLIN MAN.