It's worth refeshing this old thread because, FINALLY, someone who knows something about Hamish Maclaren has finally contacted me, and apparently sifted through this tangled thread to do so. This person is Hamish's daughter who would like to revive interest in her father and his literary work. I've encouraged her to post some notes on this thread. Please be courteous.

Maclaren's two other published works are Private Opinions on a British Blue-Jacket and his semi-autobiographical sketches in Cockalorum.

In one of his stories about sifting through the reviews of his first novel, Maclaren mentions some "damning with faint praise" comments from P. Stoat Jones who he recognizes as a "jolly sailor-lady" who's "an absolute authority on the sea, particularly at home in a tramp's fo'c'sle when hands are turning to of the morning." This is a veiled reference, of course, to C. Fox Smith.

Mudcat does work, but sometimes the process tries one's patience.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble