BIB_ID
293617
Accession number
MA 47.15
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 July 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
"A Ballad" first line: There was a lass and she was fair.
"A Ballad" here without edits and as published.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and JY 02) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr."
Dating and localization 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 a note in Burns's hand alongside the sixth stanza reading "Is not this original."
"A Ballad" here without edits and as published.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and JY 02) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr."
Dating and localization 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 a note in Burns's hand alongside the sixth stanza reading "Is not this original."
Summary
Introducing and giving the verses for "A Ballad." Mentioning thoughts of inserting "the names of the fair-ones, the themes of my Songs" into an index, not giving the name in full, but with "dashes or asterisms, so as ingenuity may find them out." With a postscript noting that Miss M'murdo of Drumlanrig is the heroine of "A Ballad."
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