Authorship Controversy
Logan left other manuscripts, of which Thomas Robertson of Dalmeny, his college friend and literary executor, gave an account in a letter to Robert Anderson, dated 19 September 1795. In this letter Robertson also listed Logan's poems, including the Ode to the Cuckoo. Bruce's friends had claimed for him the authorship of the Ode to the Cuckoo. and other poems and hymns which Logan had published under his own name. Logan's authorship of the poems and hymns he claimed was defended by David Laing, John Small, and the Rev. R. Small. Modern scholarship favours Bruce as the author.
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