BIB_ID
294003
Accession number
MA 50.19
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1795 Aug. 3].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 36.6 cm
Notes
"[To Chloris]" first line: 'Tis Friendship's pledge, my young, fair Friend.
"[To Chloris]" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Scotch Song" first line (as published and as edited in this item by Burns): Now Spring has clad the grove in green. Variant first line given in this manuscript (prior edits by Burns): Now Nature cleeds the grove in green.
"Scotch Song" with edits by Burns and as published; see notes in Kinsley for Burns's corrections.
"Scotish Song" first line: O bonie was yon rosy brier.
"Scotish Song" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Docketed "Mr. Cunningham" by Burns; docketed "With two Songs -- beg[innin]g Now Spring has clad the groves in green. -- O bonny was yon rosy brier &c." in another hand.
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.
Possibly enclosed in a letter from Burns to George Thomson, dated 3 August 1795 (MA 50.18). Localization and dating of this item from possible relationship with MA 50.18.--Cf. Ferguson, p. 364.
"[To Chloris]" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
"Scotch Song" first line (as published and as edited in this item by Burns): Now Spring has clad the grove in green. Variant first line given in this manuscript (prior edits by Burns): Now Nature cleeds the grove in green.
"Scotch Song" with edits by Burns and as published; see notes in Kinsley for Burns's corrections.
"Scotish Song" first line: O bonie was yon rosy brier.
"Scotish Song" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Docketed "Mr. Cunningham" by Burns; docketed "With two Songs -- beg[innin]g Now Spring has clad the groves in green. -- O bonny was yon rosy brier &c." in another hand.
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.
Possibly enclosed in a letter from Burns to George Thomson, dated 3 August 1795 (MA 50.18). Localization and dating of this item from possible relationship with MA 50.18.--Cf. Ferguson, p. 364.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Countermark: " I TAYLOR 1794".
Summary
Giving the verses of "Scotch Song" and "Scotish Song." Giving the verses for "[To Chloris]," with preface as published in Kinsley.
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