BIB_ID
293694
Accession number
MA 47.21
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 Aug. 25].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
"Song -- Tune -- Geordie's byre" first line: Adown winding Nith I did wander.
"Song -- Tune -- Geordie's byre" with an additional stanza between stanzas 2 and 3. This additional stanza has been canceled and is printed in Kinsley's notes. Otherwise, verses are without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Song" first line (as published): O whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad. Alternate first line given in manuscript: O whistle, & I'll come to you my jo / lad.
"Song" without edits but with the first stanza differing from the published version. Variant first stanza not given in Kinsley notes. Stanzas 2-4 without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Dated in Ferguson, p. 231.
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
"Song -- Tune -- Geordie's byre" with an additional stanza between stanzas 2 and 3. This additional stanza has been canceled and is printed in Kinsley's notes. Otherwise, verses are without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Song" first line (as published): O whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad. Alternate first line given in manuscript: O whistle, & I'll come to you my jo / lad.
"Song" without edits but with the first stanza differing from the published version. Variant first stanza not given in Kinsley notes. Stanzas 2-4 without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Dated in Ferguson, p. 231.
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
Suggesting that Thomson apply to Peter Pindar for verses. Praising "Whistle & I'll come to you, my lad," inquiring whether it is one of Thomson's airs, noting that he set verses to it the previous day, and giving verses to his "Song." Praising the air "The muckin' o' Geordie's byre," and giving the verses of his "Song" to that tune. Noting that "Mr. Clarke begs you to give Miss Phillis a corner in your Book as she is a particular Flame of his, & out of compliment to him, I have made the Song." Noting that she is a McMurdo, and sister to the heroine in Burns's "Bonie Jean." Mentioning that he will again write to Thomson "the very first grist I get from my Rhyming Mill."
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