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FAMOUS SONGS
lated privately by McNally among his friends long prior to this.
"A piece of negative evidence," says the editor of the " Poets of Ireland" " not hitherto mentioned in favour of McNally's authorship is, that in ' Myrtle and Vine/ a collection of songs edited by C. H. Wilson (where there are about a dozen songs by Upton, the reputed author of the ' Lass of Richmond Hill,' whom Wilson probably knew, for he seems to have got the songs from the author direct), the lyric about which there has been so much dispute is given anonymously. If Upton had written it his name would presumably have been put to it as to the others by him." It is a curious fact that the song does not appear in Upton's collected poems. It seems odd, truly, that I'Anson should have lived so far away as Richmond, in Yorkshire, but over and over again it has been proved that such was the case, as he had a town house as well. There is a public house called " The Lass of Richmond Hill," on Richmond Hill, in Sur-rey, due to a natural misconception by the orig-inal owner, and this has misled many people. McNally, who wrote a number of songs and operettas for Covent Garden and other theatres, was born in Dublin, in 1752, and died in the same city, February 13th, 1820.
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