BIB_ID
293971
Accession number
MA 50.12
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1795 Feb. 7.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
"Song -- Tune, We'll gang nae mair to yon town" first line: O wat ye wha 's in yon town.
"Song -- Tune, We'll gang nae mair to yon town" first stanza without edits and as published in Kinsley; second stanza (beginning "O sweet to me yon spreading tree") without edits and published in notes in Kinsley.
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.
"Song -- Tune, We'll gang nae mair to yon town" first stanza without edits and as published in Kinsley; second stanza (beginning "O sweet to me yon spreading tree") without edits and published in notes in Kinsley.
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.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Crown above, man on horse, over intertwined cursive "TC".
Summary
Describing a predicament, which has left burns stranded in an "unfortunate, wicked, little village," noting that his options were "either to get drunk, to forget these miseries; or to hang myself, to get rid of these miseries," and that he has "like a prudent man ... chosen the least & am very drunk -- at your service." Inquiring whether Thomson knows the air "We'll gang nae mair to yon town" and giving a chorus and a stanza to his "Song -- Tune, We'll gang nae mair to yon town."
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