BIB_ID
293976
Accession number
MA 50.13
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1795 Apr.].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
"Address to the woodlark" first line: O stay, sweet warbling woodlark stay.
"Address to the woodlark" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Song -- (On Chloris being ill) Tune, Ay waken O" first line: Long, long the night.
"Song -- (On Chloris being ill) Tune, Ay waken O" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Song -- Tune, Laddie lie near me" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Song -- Tune, We'll gang mae mair to yon town" first line: O wat ye wha 's in yon town.
"Song -- Tune, We'll gang mae mair to yon town" without edits and differing slightly from published version; see notes in Kinsley for variants.
"Song" to the tune of "Humours of glen" first line: Their groves o' sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon.
"Song" to the tune of "Humours of glen" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Dated in Ferguson, p. 346.
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.
Song -- Tune, Laddie lie near me" first line: 'Twas na her bonie blue e'e was my ruin.
"Address to the woodlark" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Song -- (On Chloris being ill) Tune, Ay waken O" first line: Long, long the night.
"Song -- (On Chloris being ill) Tune, Ay waken O" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Song -- Tune, Laddie lie near me" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Song -- Tune, We'll gang mae mair to yon town" first line: O wat ye wha 's in yon town.
"Song -- Tune, We'll gang mae mair to yon town" without edits and differing slightly from published version; see notes in Kinsley for variants.
"Song" to the tune of "Humours of glen" first line: Their groves o' sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon.
"Song" to the tune of "Humours of glen" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Dated in Ferguson, p. 346.
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.
Song -- Tune, Laddie lie near me" first line: 'Twas na her bonie blue e'e was my ruin.
Summary
Giving the verses of "Song -- Tune, We'll gang mae mair to yon town." Briefly discussing Thomson's "objection" to "Let me in this ae night." Referencing his "Song -- Tune, Where'll bonie Ann lie." Giving the verses of "Address to the woodlark." Giving the verses of "Song -- (On Chloris being ill) Tune, Ay waken O" (here titled "Song -- Tune, Ay wakin O -- (On Chloris being ill)"). Suggesting the air "Johnie Cope" for his "Address to the woodlark.," mentioning English verses Craigieburn and referencing Joseph Ritson's "Select Collection of English Songs" (London, 1783). Mentioning other airs and giving the verses for "Song" to the tune of "Humours of glen" (here simply titled "Song"). With a postscript giving the verses of "Song -- Tune, Laddie lie near me."
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