BIB_ID
294009
Accession number
MA 50.20
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1796 Feb.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 34.1-37.5 cm
Notes
"Hey for a lass wi' a tocher. Tune, Balinamona and ora" first line: Awa wi' your witchcraft o' beauty's alarms.
"Hey for a lass wi' a tocher. Tune, Balinamona and ora" with an additional stanza preceding the second stanza. Burns has canceled this stanza and the remainder is as printed. See notes in Kinsley for canceled stanza.
Address panel with postmark (FE ...) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Feby 1796 Mr. Burns with Scotch Verses for Balinamona Ora. Approving of ... publishing an octavo edition of the Songs w[ith] Etchings -- and promising to furnish verses."
Dating from postmark and docket.
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 reading "The Bard never explained what name he wan[ted] for Chloris. -- Mr. Syme knows the Lady I bel[ieve]. I think if her name has two syllables, we should [use it what]ever it may be. -- Or, shall it remain Chloris, as the Poet left it?"
"Hey for a lass wi' a tocher. Tune, Balinamona and ora" with an additional stanza preceding the second stanza. Burns has canceled this stanza and the remainder is as printed. See notes in Kinsley for canceled stanza.
Address panel with postmark (FE ...) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Feby 1796 Mr. Burns with Scotch Verses for Balinamona Ora. Approving of ... publishing an octavo edition of the Songs w[ith] Etchings -- and promising to furnish verses."
Dating from postmark and docket.
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 reading "The Bard never explained what name he wan[ted] for Chloris. -- Mr. Syme knows the Lady I bel[ieve]. I think if her name has two syllables, we should [use it what]ever it may be. -- Or, shall it remain Chloris, as the Poet left it?"
Summary
Thanking him for a gift sent to Mrs. Burns and for a volume of Pindar. Discussing subscriptions and subscribers. Approving of Thomson's plan to publish an octavo edition of the collection with etchings, and offering to "lend every assistance." Giving the verses for "Hey for a lass wi' a torcher Tune, Balinamona and ora." Discussing his use of the name Chloris, noting that it is the fictitious name of a "certain lady" (Jean Lorimer) but that it is "a high incongruity to have a Greek a[ppellation] to a Scotch Pastoral Ballad." Promising to continue the discussion and send edits in a following letter.
Catalog link
Department