Peter Hill

(1754-1837)

LBT ID: PeHill1837	B/BAP: 1754 DIED: 1837
SOURCES: Maurice Lindsay, The Burns Encyclopedia (1970); Scottish Book Trade Index (web)
Edinburgh bookseller and correspondent of Robert Burns; he first worked as a clerk for Thomas Creech; Archibald Constable later served as his apprentice.
REFERENCES TO Peter Hill: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Notices to Correspondents” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (March 1818) np Verse 2: p. p. C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 1: ¶ 7 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 3