BIB_ID
195922
Accession number
MA 13700
Creator
Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871.
Display Date
1848 July 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.4 x 13.7 cm
Notes
Postmarked and addressed, with seal, Robert Balmanno, Esq / New York.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning a previous letter from Balmanno regarding Mrs. [Jean] Renwick's recollections of Robert Burns, offering to publish a proposed paper by him on Burns in Chamber's Edinburgh journal, and stating that he would welcome any original letters or poems by Burns that Balmanno may acquire; discussing a group of letters from Burns to Edinburgh bookseller Peter Hill (1754-1837) and the possibility that a letter to a Peter Hill in New York might be addressed to his son, Peter Hill the younger.
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