BIB_ID
141440
Accession number
MA 50.27
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1787 Jan. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Localization from early bookseller's description (see accompanying material, MA 50.27b).
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for more information.
Watermark: Countermark: "L PAINE". Watermark (countermark), beta radiograph. L Paine. 141440wm_MA_50_27_Burns_CM_beta.jpg
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for more information.
Watermark: Countermark: "L PAINE". Watermark (countermark), beta radiograph. L Paine. 141440wm_MA_50_27_Burns_CM_beta.jpg
Provenance
Purchased at the sale of Sir John Leslie's library by C. K. Sharpe in 1833; at the library at Brechin Castle, the seat of the Earl of Dalhousie, in 1875; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1906.
Summary
Discussing his search for a new place to live, mentioning a "small farm or other" near Dumfries. Describing a visit to a Masonic lodge where the presiding Grand Master gave the toast "Caledonia, & Caledonia's Bard, brother B---." Mentioning that Burns had "no idea sucha thing would happen and was downright thunderstruck." Describing his pious landlady, noting he has corrected 152 pages, and sending good wishes to Mr. Aiken.
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