BIB_ID
293686
Accession number
MA 47.19
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 mid-Aug.].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
"Song" first line: Had I a cave on some wild, distant shore.
"Song" here without edits and as published in Kinsley.
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.
"Song" here without edits and as published in Kinsley.
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.
Summary
Disparaging his last effort at "that crinkum crankum tune, Robin Adair," noting that he has ventured "one essay more," and giving verses to his "Song." Relating that he has "met with a musical Highlander ... [who] remembers his mother's singing Gaelic songs to both, Robin Adair, & Gramachree," and discussing those airs, suspecting that "wandering Minstrels, Harpers, or Pipers" may be responsible for their dispersion among Scotland and Ireland. Suggesting that Thomson "ask honest Allan, or the Revd Gaelic Parson, about these matters."
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