BIB_ID
293712
Accession number
MA 47.26
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 Sept. 8].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.8 cm
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"Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn -- To its ain tune" (here titled "Bannockburn -- A Song -- Robert Bruce's Address to his Army") first line: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled.
"Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn -- To its ain tune" (here titled "Bannockburn -- A Song -- Robert Bruce's Address to his Army") without edits and differing from the version published in Kinsley. See notes in Kinsley for the variants given here.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and SE 8) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Sept. 1793 Mr. Burns with an altered set of Verses for Lewie Gordon." (N.B. Thomson preferred these verses to the tune "Lewie Gordon.")
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 couplet given is from William Hamilton of Gilbertfield's The Life and Heroic actions of Sir William Wallace, book VI, chapter 2, lines 92-93.
The revisions given here fit the verses to the tune "Lewis Gordon," as suggested by Thomson.
"Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn -- To its ain tune" (here titled "Bannockburn -- A Song -- Robert Bruce's Address to his Army") without edits and differing from the version published in Kinsley. See notes in Kinsley for the variants given here.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and SE 8) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Sept. 1793 Mr. Burns with an altered set of Verses for Lewie Gordon." (N.B. Thomson preferred these verses to the tune "Lewie Gordon.")
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 couplet given is from William Hamilton of Gilbertfield's The Life and Heroic actions of Sir William Wallace, book VI, chapter 2, lines 92-93.
The revisions given here fit the verses to the tune "Lewis Gordon," as suggested by Thomson.
Summary
Giving the revised verses of his "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn -- To its ain tune" (here titled "Bannockburn -- A Song -- Robert Bruce's Address to his Army"). Rejecting Thomson's proposed edit, noting that it is "though a beautiful, a hacknied idea." Mentioning that he has borrowed the last stanza from the common Stall edition of Wallace, and giving "a couplet worthy of Homer."
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