BIB_ID
293969
Accession number
MA 50.11
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1795 Feb. 6].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
"Let me in this ae night" first line: O lassie, art thou sleeping yet.
"Let me in this ae night" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and FE 6) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Feb '95 Mr. Burns with new Verses for Let me in this ae night."
Localization and dating 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.
With notes in Thomson's hand.
"Let me in this ae night" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and FE 6) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Feb '95 Mr. Burns with new Verses for Let me in this ae night."
Localization and dating 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.
With notes in Thomson's hand.
Summary
Referencing Thomson's difficulties with Pleyel, and suggesting that he turn to Clarke for assistance. Giving the verses of his "Let me in this ae night." With a postscript adding a "better" stanza (beginning "The bird that charm'd his summer day").
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