BIB_ID
293671
Accession number
MA 47.18
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 Aug. 13].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
"Let me in this ae night" are verses to the tune "Will ye lend me your loom Lass."
"Let me in this ae night" first line: O lassie art thou sleepin yet.
"Let me in this ae night" here without edits and as published in Kinsley. "Phyllis the fair -- Tune, Robin Adair" significantly different from published version; see alternate stanzas in Kinsley. "Song -- Tune, Cauld kail in Aberdeem" with a single edit and as published in Kinsley.
"Phyllis the fair -- Tune, Robin Adair" first line: While larks with little wing.
"Song -- Tune, Cauld kail in Aberdeem" first line: O poortith cauld, and restless love. (Alternate first line given in manuscript: O poortith cauld, & restless love.)
Address panel with evidence of seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AU 13) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Aug. 1793 Mr. Burns with verses to Let me in the ae night and Cauld Kail in Abd[eree]n with Robin Adair."
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
"Let me in this ae night" first line: O lassie art thou sleepin yet.
"Let me in this ae night" here without edits and as published in Kinsley. "Phyllis the fair -- Tune, Robin Adair" significantly different from published version; see alternate stanzas in Kinsley. "Song -- Tune, Cauld kail in Aberdeem" with a single edit and as published in Kinsley.
"Phyllis the fair -- Tune, Robin Adair" first line: While larks with little wing.
"Song -- Tune, Cauld kail in Aberdeem" first line: O poortith cauld, and restless love. (Alternate first line given in manuscript: O poortith cauld, & restless love.)
Address panel with evidence of seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AU 13) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Aug. 1793 Mr. Burns with verses to Let me in the ae night and Cauld Kail in Abd[eree]n with Robin Adair."
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
Summary
Discussing edits to his song to the tune of "Logan Water." Asking for a list of the next songs to be published, noting that the large list already sent "is so blurred & blotted that nobody besides myself cold make any thing of it." Giving the verses of "Let me in this ae night," "Phyllis the fair. -- Tune, Robin Adair," and "Song -- Tune, Cauld kail in Aberdeen." Mentioning two subscribers.
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