BIB_ID
293515
Accession number
MA 47.6
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1792] Dec. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
"Auld Rob Morris" first line: There's auld Rob Morris that wons in yon glen.
"Duncan Gray" first line: Duncan Gray cam here to woo.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and DE 6) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Dec. 1792 Mr. Burns with Auld Rob Morris & Duncan Gray."
Both poems with minor edits (including by Thomson), but as published in Kinsley.
Localization from postmark.
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.
With notes in Thomson's hand discussing "Auld Rob Morris" and suggesting an alteration to "Duncan Gray."
"Duncan Gray" first line: Duncan Gray cam here to woo.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and DE 6) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Dec. 1792 Mr. Burns with Auld Rob Morris & Duncan Gray."
Both poems with minor edits (including by Thomson), but as published in Kinsley.
Localization from postmark.
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.
With notes in Thomson's hand discussing "Auld Rob Morris" and suggesting an alteration to "Duncan Gray."
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: "I TAYLOR".
Summary
Giving the verses for "Auld Rob Morris" and "Duncan Gray," submitting them to Thomson for his "better judgement." Noting that "Duncan Gray" is "that kind of light-horse gallop of an air, which precludes sentiment."
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