BIB_ID
294030
Accession number
MA 50.23
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1796 June 17].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
"Here 's a health to ane I lo'e dear" first line: Here 's a health to ane I lo'e dear.
"Here 's a health to ane I lo'e dear" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and JU 17) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr / Pr favor of Mr. Lewars." ("Pr favor of Mr. Lewars" canceled). Docketed "June 1796."
Localization and dating from postmarks 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 following "Here 's a health to ane I lo'e dear" reading "The Poet it is presumed never went farther with this Song. G.T."
"Here 's a health to ane I lo'e dear" without edits and as published in Kinsley.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and JU 17) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr / Pr favor of Mr. Lewars." ("Pr favor of Mr. Lewars" canceled). Docketed "June 1796."
Localization and dating from postmarks 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 following "Here 's a health to ane I lo'e dear" reading "The Poet it is presumed never went farther with this Song. G.T."
Summary
Noting that he once mentioned the air "Here's a health to them that's awa, hiney," stating that he has "just been trying to suit it with verses," and giving the verses of "Here 's a health to ane I lo'e dear." Stating that this letter will be delivered by Mr. Lewars, "a young fellow of uncommon merit," and giving an introduction. Stating that he has not kept copies of the songs he has sent to Thomson over the years, and asking him, "when you have compleat [sic] leisure" to send the originals or copies, noting that Burns has "a fancy to review them all & possibly may mend some of them," and that he would "rather be the author of five well-written songs than of ten otherwise." Stating that he would suppress the verses to "Cauld kail in Aberdeem" and "Laddie lie near me," because "they are neither worthy of my name, nor of your book." Hoping that the approaching summer will "set me to rights," but noting that he as yet "cannot boast of returning health." Mentioning that "my complaint is a flying gout: -- a damnable business!"
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