BIB_ID
294033
Accession number
MA 50.22
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1796 May 13 or 18].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and MY 13 or 18) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees' Office / Edinr." Docketed "Mr. Burns ab[ou]t Certificate of my being authorized to publish all the Songs of his writing."
Localization and dating from postmarks and Ferguson, p. 380.
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.
Localization and dating from postmarks and Ferguson, p. 380.
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
Discussing his intention to publish a collection "on a cheap plan" of all the songs Burns has written for Thomson and James Johnson. Noting that he wishes to do this "as to do justice to my Muse, lest I should be blamed for trash I never saw, or be defrauded by other claimants of what is justly my own." Enclosing (not present) a certificate based on Mr. McKnight's model, which "will amply answer the purpose."
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