BIB_ID
362945
Accession number
MA 43.4
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1790 Mar. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 32 cm
Notes
"Printed v2 95," "most part," and "C 295" written at the top of p. [1] in different hands.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Cross / Edinr."
Docketed "Robert Burns / Ellisland 2 March / 1790." Also with the notes "business [dec?] first part last part very good & characteristic of the Bard," "Folio 42," and various unexplained sums on p. [4].
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 (Dumfries) and trace of a seal.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Cross / Edinr."
Docketed "Robert Burns / Ellisland 2 March / 1790." Also with the notes "business [dec?] first part last part very good & characteristic of the Bard," "Folio 42," and various unexplained sums on p. [4].
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 (Dumfries) and trace of a seal.
Provenance
George Wilson, grandson of Peter Hill; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson, 1902.
Summary
Asking him to send books for the Monkland friendly Society, including The Mirror, the Lounger, [Henry Mackenzie's] Man of feeling, [Mackenzie's] Man of the world, [John] Knox's history of the Reformation, [Peter] Rae's history of the Rebellion 1715, A display of the Secession Act & Testimony by Mr. [Adam] Gib, [James] Hervey's Meditations, [William] Beveridge's Thoughts, and another copy of [Thomas] Watson's body of Divinity; including "private instructions" that he is "not to send Watson, but to say that you could not procure a Copy of the book so cheap as the one you sent formerly & therefore you wait farther [sic] Orders"; also requesting three copies of An Index to the Excise laws by Jellinger Symons and cheap copies of works by [Thomas] Otway, Ben Johnson [i.e. Jonson], [John] Dryden, [William] Congreve, [William] Wycherley, [John] Vanbrugh, [Colley] Cibber, [Charles] Macklin, [David] Garrick, [Samuel?] Foote, [George] Colman, [Richard Brinsley] Sheridan, Molière, [Jean] Racine, [Pierre] Corneille, and Voltaire; wishing he and Hill could meet with their wives and accompany the ladies in singing; complaining about the "vile world," and promising that he would "wipe away all tears from all eyes" if he could.
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