BIB_ID
294000
Accession number
MA 50.18
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1795 Aug. 3].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 37.7 cm
Notes
"Song -- Tune, This is no my ain house" first line: O this is no my ain lassie.
"Song -- Tune, This is no my ain house" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AU 3) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Mr. Burns with Scotch Verses for This is no mine ain house & alterations on Whistle & I'll come t'ye -- & The Quaker wife. Wrote reg[ardin]g that Whistle might be all[owed] to remain as it is."
Localization and dating from postmarks and Ferguson, p. 362.
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, This is no my ain house" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and AU 3) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Mr. Burns with Scotch Verses for This is no mine ain house & alterations on Whistle & I'll come t'ye -- & The Quaker wife. Wrote reg[ardin]g that Whistle might be all[owed] to remain as it is."
Localization and dating from postmarks and Ferguson, p. 362.
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: Horn inside crowned shield above "GR".
Watermark: Countermark: Edmeads & Pine.
Watermark: Countermark: Edmeads & Pine.
Summary
Giving a revised stanza (lines 13-16) of "English Song -- Tune, Let me in this ae night." Mentioning an edit to the first line of "Thine am I, my Chloris fair" (here referred to "the English song to Leiger m' choss, alias, The Quaker's wife"). Giving an "improvement" to his "Song" (beginning "O whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad"), noting that the heroine of the song "insists on the amendment" but inviting Thomson to "dispute her commands, if you dare!" Discussing proposed edits to "Scotish Ballad -- Tune, the Lothian Lassie." Mentioning an edit for his "Song -- Tune, This is no my ain house" and giving those revised verses. Noting that Thomson has "roused the torpidity of Clarke at last" and that Stephen Clarke has requested verses from Burns that he may set to music. Enclosing (perhaps MA 50.19) two songs for Thomson to forward, mentioning that Thomson may open the enclosure and copy the song beginning "O bonie was yon rosy brier." Also enclosing (not present) a song to "For a' that and a' that," which was composed by "a lady."
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