BIB_ID
293989
Accession number
MA 50.16
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1795 June].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
"English Song -- Tune, Let me in this ae night" first line: Forlorn, my Love, no comfort near.
"English Song -- Tune, Let me in this ae night" with an edit by Thomson and Burns each, but as published. See notes in Kinsley for corrections.
Dated in Ferguson, p. 359.
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.
"English Song -- Tune, Let me in this ae night" with an edit by Thomson and Burns each, but as published. See notes in Kinsley for corrections.
Dated in Ferguson, p. 359.
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
Giving the verses for "English Song -- Tune, Let me in this ae night," noting "I have written it within this hour: so much for the speed of my Pegasus; but what say you to his bottom?"
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