BIB_ID
362931
Accession number
MA 43.3
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1790 Feb. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
"Not printed" and "C 287" written at the top of p. [1] in two different hands.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Edinr." Address is written over a different address.
Docketed "Robert Burns / Ellisland." Also with the note "Folio 40" and a second note, largely illegible, concerning the contents of the letter.
Part of a collection of ten autograph letters signed from Robert Burns to Peter Hill. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 43.1-10).
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Edinr." Address is written over a different address.
Docketed "Robert Burns / Ellisland." Also with the note "Folio 40" and a second note, largely illegible, concerning the contents of the letter.
Part of a collection of ten autograph letters signed from Robert Burns to Peter Hill. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 43.1-10).
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
George Wilson, grandson of Peter Hill; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson, 1902.
Summary
Apologizing for the delay in his reply; asking if he has seen "any of my few friends"; discussing the money his book society owes to Hill, and making arrangements for paying it; requesting that he send a copy of James Hurdis's "The Village Curate" and thank [John] Armstrong for the copy of his book [Juvenile Poems; with Remarks on Poetry, and a Dissertation on the Best Method of Punishing and Preventing Crimes]; asking after [William] Smellie.
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