BIB_ID
293809
Accession number
MA 50.1
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1794 May 7].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
"Banks of Cree" first line: Here is the glen, and here is the bower.
"Banks of Cree" here without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and MA 07?) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "May 1794 Mr. Burns with a set of fine English Verses 8 & 8 to be applied to some air of that measure. Here is the Glen &c."
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.
"Banks of Cree" here without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and MA 07?) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "May 1794 Mr. Burns with a set of fine English Verses 8 & 8 to be applied to some air of that measure. Here is the Glen &c."
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.
Summary
Returning his plates and discussing them. Expressing vexation at Pleyel's stay in France, noting that it "will put an entire stop to our work." Giving the verses to his "Banks of Cree," written to accompany a tune composed by Lady Elizabeth Heron.
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