Address of the Scots distillers : to the Right Hon. William Pitt : autograph manuscript, [1789 Feb.?].

"Petition of the Scotch Distillers to Mr. Pitt" and "Address of the Scots Distillers" written on the verso of p. 3. The second note may be in Burns' hand; the first is in an unknown hand.
J. De Lancey Ferguson notes that the address was published in the Edinburgh evening courant on Feb. 9, 1789 and points out a reference Burns makes to a "piece of ... prose" he is mailing her that treads on "dangerous ground" (in a letter to Mrs. Dunlop dated Feb. 5, 1789).
Signed "John Barleycorn."
With corrections; published versions of the address differ slightly from this draft.