BIB_ID
293511
Accession number
MA 47.4
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1792 Nov. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
"Highland Mary" first line: Ye banks, and braes, and streams abound.
"Highland Mary" is as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and NO 15) and addressed to "Mr / George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Nov. 1792 Mr. Burns High[lan]d Mary. for Kath: Ogies airs?" Localization from partial Dumfries postmark.
Localization from postmark.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. See collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for full description.
"Highland Mary" is as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and NO 15) and addressed to "Mr / George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Nov. 1792 Mr. Burns High[lan]d Mary. for Kath: Ogies airs?" Localization from partial Dumfries postmark.
Localization from postmark.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. See collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for full description.
Summary
Giving the verses for "Highland Mary," indicating that they are intended to be to the tune of "Katharine Ogie." Agreeing that the song "Katharine Ogie" "is very poor stuff & unworthy, altogether unworthy, of so beautiful an air," and mentioning that the subject of the verses "is one of the most interesting passages of my youthful days." Noting that he is working on "Auld Rob Morris."
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