BIB_ID
293947
Accession number
MA 50.9
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1794] ca. Dec. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25 cm
Notes
"My Nanie's awa -- Tune, There'll never be peace" first line: Now in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays.
"My Nanie's awa -- Tune, There'll never be peace" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and DE 9) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Dec. '94 No. 69 Mr. Burns with new Verses for the Air There'll never be peace 'till Jamie comes hame and sugg[estion]s Eng[lish] Verses for Todlin hame air?"
Allen Ramsay's "Song" to the tune of "When she came ben she bobbit" first line: Come fill me a bumper, my jolly, brave boys. Published in vol. I of his Tea-Table Miscellany.
Localization and date from postmarks and docket.
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.
"My Nanie's awa -- Tune, There'll never be peace" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and DE 9) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Dec. '94 No. 69 Mr. Burns with new Verses for the Air There'll never be peace 'till Jamie comes hame and sugg[estion]s Eng[lish] Verses for Todlin hame air?"
Allen Ramsay's "Song" to the tune of "When she came ben she bobbit" first line: Come fill me a bumper, my jolly, brave boys. Published in vol. I of his Tea-Table Miscellany.
Localization and date from postmarks and docket.
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
Discussing the Jacobite song "There'll never be peace till Jamie come hame," and giving new verses to the tune (i.e., "My Nanie's awa -- Tune, There'll never be peace"). Suggesting Allen Ramsay's "Song" to the tune of "When she came ben she bobbit" for the tune "Todlin hame," adding a chorus to Ramsay's verses.
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