BIB_ID
293697
Accession number
MA 47.22
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 Aug. 28].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
"Song -- Tune, Cauld kail" first line: Come, let me take thee to my breast.
"Song -- Tune, Cauld kail" here with a single edit, but as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with evidence of a seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AU 28) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Aug. 1793 Mr. Burns with New Verses to Cauld kail in Ab[er]d[ee]m."
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.
The first of two letters posted on on 28 August 1793.
With notes in Thomson's hand.
"Song -- Tune, Cauld kail" here with a single edit, but as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with evidence of a seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AU 28) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Aug. 1793 Mr. Burns with New Verses to Cauld kail in Ab[er]d[ee]m."
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.
The first of two letters posted on on 28 August 1793.
With notes in Thomson's hand.
Summary
Discussing his inspiration, noting that the previous evening his "old Inspiring dearest Nypmh, Coila, whispered me the following," and giving the verses to his "Song, Tune, Cauld kail." Noting that he cannot "meddle" with "The last time I came o'er the moor" (i.e., "Song" to the tune of "Nansy 's to the green-wood gane"). Mentioning that a song "O, were I on Parnassus Hill" is published in the third volume of Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, and asking whether it would "suit" Thomson. Asking for a list of the first hundred songs Thomson intends to publish.
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