I have always felt some concern that Mr.Home, who lived several years after Bell's publication, did not testify more regard for his deceased friend's memory by protesting against this imposition.

Mr.Mackenzie is still living; and I shall shortly have his opinion upon the question; and if it be at all interesting, I shall take the liberty of sending it to you.
[97] _Memoirs_, ii.

212-14, with important additions from the original.
G.
[98] _i.e._ convinced by what Wordsworth had remarked to me, that those portions of Collins's 'Ode on the Superstitions of the Highlanders,' which first appeared in Bell's edition of that Ode, were forgeries.
_A.D._ Dyer is another of our minor poets--minor as to quantity--of whom one would wish to know more.

Particulars about him might still be collected, I should think, in South Wales, his native country, and where in early life he practised as a painter.

I have often heard Sir George Beaumont express a curiosity about his pictures, and a wish to see any specimen of his pencil that might survive.