BIB_ID
293706
Accession number
MA 47.25
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 Sept.].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
"Song -- Tune, Oran gaoil" first line: Behold the hour, the boat arrive.
"Song -- Tune, Oran gaoil" here without edits and as published.
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 -- Tune, Oran gaoil" here without edits and as published.
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
Apologizing for his frequent letters, noting that Burns "can't help it" and that "a Ballad is my hobby-horse" that is liable to run away without regard to "poor Pilgarlic, the bedlam Jockey." Giving the verses to his "Song -- Tune, Oran gaoil."
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