BIB_ID
363001
Accession number
MA 43.5
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1791 Mar.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 22.9 and 23 cm
Notes
"Printed v2," "56", and "C 280" written at the top of p. [1] in different hands.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Edr."
Docketed "Robert Burns / Dumfries." Place of writing from this docket.
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).
The letter is undated; probable date is from the published version of the letter.
With the notes "After the regency" and "Folio 84" on the address panel.
With trace of a seal.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Edr."
Docketed "Robert Burns / Dumfries." Place of writing from this docket.
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).
The letter is undated; probable date is from the published version of the letter.
With the notes "After the regency" and "Folio 84" on the address panel.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
George Wilson, grandson of Peter Hill; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson, 1902.
Summary
Sending him a cheese; commenting on indigestion brought on by "successful Knavery," "self-important Folly," and people who are "hollow-hearted," "proud," or "pert"; in cases of such indigestion, prescribing "Patience & a bit of my Cheese"; listing friends who would benefit from his cheese, including [William] Smellie, [James] Candlish, David [Ramsay, proprietor of the Edinburgh Evening Courant], [William] Dunbar, [Alexander] Cunningham, and John Somerville; also mentioning the Laird of Craigdarroch [Alexander Fergusson] and the Duke of Queensberry [William Douglas].
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