BIB_ID
293513
Accession number
MA 47.5
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1792 Dec. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.7 cm
Notes
"The Lea-rig" first line: When o'er the hill the eastern star.
"The Lea-rig" with some minor edits and as published in Kinsley.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. See collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for full description.
With notes in the hands of James Currie and Allen Cunningham.
Written from Dumfries. With address panel excised but repaired with similar paper stock, and with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and DE 3). Docketed "1st Dec. 1792 Mr. Burns agreeing to the alterations prop[ose]d on sev[eral] Songs - w[ith] an add[itional] verse to The Lea rigg."
"The Lea-rig" with some minor edits and as published in Kinsley.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. See collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for full description.
With notes in the hands of James Currie and Allen Cunningham.
Written from Dumfries. With address panel excised but repaired with similar paper stock, and with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and DE 3). Docketed "1st Dec. 1792 Mr. Burns agreeing to the alterations prop[ose]d on sev[eral] Songs - w[ith] an add[itional] verse to The Lea rigg."
Summary
Agreeing to alterations of his song to the tune of "My Nanie, O" and "My wife's a wanton wee thing" (i.e., "My wife's a winsome wee thing"). Disagreeing with edits to "O saw ye bonie Lesley," but noting "it is immaterial: make it either way." Giving the complete text of "The Lea-rigg." Noting that he has been interrupted and asking the recipient to "transmit the inclosed by a careful hand."
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