Papers presented at international conferences for professors of American and British Literature, as well as the Arts and Humanities, are included in their full programs for attendees.  Some scholarly journals of those conferences select certain submissions for publication.  Where this presenter's papers have not been printed in journals, he will try to have them included in these web pages. Publications, from my submissions to, “Bibliography of MLA Members,” and Poe Studies, Dep't of English, Washington State U., are as follows: Brill, Robert Densmore. “Visiting the Mother Club, the final frontier!” Burns Chronicle, 1998: 35-38. Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, U. K. Edgar Allan Poe, “The father of American literature,” Edgar Allan Poe and his uncle, John Galt, and their cousin Robert Burns’ connections with Greenock, Strathclyde, Scotland. Brill, Robert Densmore. “The Poes of Ayrshire, Scotland,” The Family TreeOctober/November 1998: 31B, Moultrie, Ga. Some Poe relatives in Newton Stewart, Galloway, Ayrshire, and Strathclyde, and mention of sources and sites of the facts found by Scottish genealogist, John McInnes.  This magazine has since gone out of production. Brill, Robert Densmore. “Robert Burns at the Caledonian Club of San Francisco’s 134th Annual Scottish Gathering and Games,” Burns Chronicle, 2001: 183 - 189. Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, U. K. A clandestine discussion of Burns and a Scottish Games to hide the message of Robert Kirk’s book, A Pictorial History of Dundonald, as the “missing link” of the connection of Burns and Poe, through common cousin, John Allan. Brill, Robert Densmore. “Edgar Allan Poe’s Prescription for a Good Night’s Sleep: ‘The Premature Burial,’” The Atlantic Literary Review, January-March 2002: 126 - 147. The hieroglyphic level of the story. Brill, Robert Densmore. “Edgar Allan Poe’s Ulster-Scots Connection,” The Ulster-Scot November 2003: 13, Belfast, Ireland. Poe’s father’s ancestors immigrated from a home in Ireland to Pennsylvania 1742, but he was from Fenwick Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland before that. Restatement of published sites of Poe artifacts in Ayrshire. Critical Perspectives in American Literature, " “Edgar Allan Poe’s Prescription for a Good Night’s Sleep: ‘The Premature Burial,'" anthologized from The Atlantic Literary Review magazine, above. 2005 Publication data forthcoming. Not eligible for the Bibliography is, "The Poes of Ayrshire, Scotland," The Family Tree magazine, Moutrie, Georgia, Fall 1999. But see 2004 MLA International Bibliography Volume 1, for entries. Brill, Robert Densmore, International Conference Proceedings, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, October 2010, "End of the Mystery: Eldorado!"  ISBN 978-9941-14-849-1	Above, is the cover of the 16th Biennial Ulster-American Historical Symposium, #77, in which Brill presented a paper on "Edgar Allan Poe's Ulster-Scots Connections." It is to be noted that amongst the attendees of this international conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the East Tennessee Historical Society, in Knoxville, any errors in and of statements presented would be immediately challenged and questioned by the more than 100 professors and scholars on the subject. This paper followed on the publication of the same topic by the author in the Ulster Scot Newspaper, published by that Agency in Belfast, Ireland, for the benefit of the Scots (residents of Scottish ancestry) in Ulster, Northern Ireland. The editor, and several members of the Board of that Agency and paper were present at the conforence.  Edgar Allan Poe was not "Irish," as has been the received opinion of scholars and writers of Poe until my article and paper on this subject, although his ancestor did marry a young lady, Jane, of the McBride (the Irish spelling of such names) family in Ulster.
Seen in the above photocopy is the front of the Burns Chronicle of 2001. This was the second in the series of articles by Brill published by the editor, Peter Westwood, the renowned scholar of Robert Burns. Mr. Westwood follows a close editorial scrutiny of material submitted to the magazine. It is available only to the more than 80,000 members of Burns Clubs and Affiliates around the world, and therefore not available for mention in the Modern Language Association's Annual Bibliography, of which Brill is a member. These covers are presented here for reference to Brill's articles in the Burns Chronicle that introduces Edgar Allan Poe's relationship to Robert Burns, through their common relative, John Allan, of Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland. The authorities, citations, and documentation of sources were presented to Mr. Westwood, but are reserved in our biography, still in progress.	Other photocopies of articles published in the Burns Chronicle, and elsewhere, will be uploaded to these pages as time permits. The Burns Chronicle of Autumn 2004 contained Brill's article of "Edgar Allan Poe's Ulster-Scots Connections." The original article was written at the invitation of the editor of the Ulster Scots Newspaper, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
This image is the label of the BBC Scotland Radio broadcast, "Scots' Gothic, Edgar Allan Poe in Ayrshire." I have written e-mails to the BBC Scotland Program Director, as well as sent e-mails through their "Contact Us" portal, and have never received a reply. However, that is consistant with the utter absence of follow-on courtesy of responding which we have of others in Scotland over the years of visits. What we experienced of communicating with many Scots after an initial conversation gives one insight into the presence of "ghost stories" in that culture. It can be a very eerie place to "holiday." Nevertheless, Mr. Kay's production is masterfully done. With very little from our interview in San Diego, California, he has orchestrated an intriguing collection of interviews with Ayrshire Scots, two American narrators of Poe's poems, new information of Scots' culture, and well known biographical facts of Poe into a captivating program of some of our new findings. I have learned that the program was heard by very few in Scotland, and even fewer in America. --But it's now "on the record!"	From the dust cover of his book of and about Scotland and her offspring, this photograph of Billy Kay cannot carry the Scots' voice that is vital to an understanding of those which Poe had to acquaint himself as a 6-year-old in the environs of the Scottish Midlands. One is encouraged to purchase Mr. Kay's book, The Scottish World, A Journey into the Scottish Diaspora, ISBN 1 845696 021 1, published by Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2006. The book contains a glossary of Scots words. Mr. Kay has an impressive production resume, for which he was personally selected by the BBC Scotland Radio producer whose interest in Edgar Allan Poe brought this interview together. The balance of the Scottish interviewees are very often impossible for the non-Scot to understand.   Mr. Kay was hosptiable enough to send us a complimentary copy of the broadcast.