BIB_ID
293849
Accession number
MA 50.3
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1794] Aug. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
"On the seas and far away -- Tune, O'er the hills &c." first line: How can my poor heart be glad.
"On the seas and far away -- Tune, O'er the hills &c." here without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with evidence of seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AU 30) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Aug. 1794 Mr. Burns English Verses to Oer the hills & far away ... wrote to him that I think the Song w[oul]d be imp[roved] by leaving out the 2d & 3d verses ... Rec[eive]d for Answer that he w[oul]d withdraw it altogether which I think w[oul]d be wrong."
Localization from postmark. Year from Thomson's docket and Ferguson, p. 304.
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 second stanza (beginning "When in summer noon I faint") is here canceled by Burns, but the stanza is printed in Kinsley.
"On the seas and far away -- Tune, O'er the hills &c." here without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with evidence of seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AU 30) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Aug. 1794 Mr. Burns English Verses to Oer the hills & far away ... wrote to him that I think the Song w[oul]d be imp[roved] by leaving out the 2d & 3d verses ... Rec[eive]d for Answer that he w[oul]d withdraw it altogether which I think w[oul]d be wrong."
Localization from postmark. Year from Thomson's docket and Ferguson, p. 304.
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 second stanza (beginning "When in summer noon I faint") is here canceled by Burns, but the stanza is printed in Kinsley.
Summary
Giving the verses of "On the seas and far away -- Tune, O'er the hills &c." and discussing it, noting that "it is just a hasty sketch" and asking for Thomson's criticisms.
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