BIB_ID
293597
Accession number
MA 47.12
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 Apr. 26].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
"Song" to the tune of "Nansy 's to the green-wood gane" (as published in Kinsley) first line: Farewell, thou stream that winding flows. (Alternate title and first line given in manuscript: "The last time I came o'er the moor.")
"The last time I came o'er the moor" differing greatly from version published in Kinsley (there titled Song (to the tune of "Nansy 's to the green-wood gane")). Providing an alternate first two lines and differing in word choices throughout; see notes in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AP 26) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Apl 1793 Mr. burns with words to the Song Last time I came oer the Muir."
Localization and dating from postmarks.
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 noting "the Poet must have misunderstood the matter. As a Song the Lee-rigg will not be altered in any respect whatever. In the Sonatas M Pleyel is permitted to vary the Airs as he pleases."
"The last time I came o'er the moor" differing greatly from version published in Kinsley (there titled Song (to the tune of "Nansy 's to the green-wood gane")). Providing an alternate first two lines and differing in word choices throughout; see notes in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AP 26) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Apl 1793 Mr. burns with words to the Song Last time I came oer the Muir."
Localization and dating from postmarks.
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 noting "the Poet must have misunderstood the matter. As a Song the Lee-rigg will not be altered in any respect whatever. In the Sonatas M Pleyel is permitted to vary the Airs as he pleases."
Summary
Giving verses to "The last time I came o'er the moor" (greatly altered and published in Kinsley as "Song" to the tune of "Nansy 's to the green-wood gane"). Discussing the work he has put into these verses and owning that his "vanity is flattered" to know that Thomson will be including some of his works in his collection. Asking again for a list of the first 25 songs to be published, and suggesting, in the form of a "hint," a formatting edit. Asking that Pleyel "not alter one iota of the original Scots air ... in the Song department," and mentioning Clarke's criticisms of "The Lea-rigg."
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