This is a complete copy (dated 18 April 1881 and numbered 3) of the second revise proof of Signature H.
In addition to this complete second revise proof, the library of the Delaware
Museum of Art contains the following proof materials for Signature H of
DGR's
Ballads and Sonnets
volume: a copy of the
NOTE.
Tradition says that Catherine Douglas, in honour of her
heroic act
when she barred the door with her arm against
the murderers of James
the First of Scots, received popu-
larly the name of
“Barlass.”
the Barlas family, in Scotland,
who bear for
their crest a broken
arm. She married Alexander Lovell
of Bolunnie.
A few stanzas from King James's lovely poem known as
The King's , are quoted in the course of this ballad.