BIB_ID
363005
Accession number
MA 43.6
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 June 13].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.8 x 30.7 cm
Notes
"Not printed" and "C 407" at the top of p. [1] in two different unknown hands.
Address, place of writing, and date are not in Burns's hand; all are probably written by [Robert] Riddell.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Cross / Edinburgh."
Endorsed: "Burns to / Peter Hill / in the Bards own / manner." Also with "Folio 98" written on the address panel.
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 (JU 14) and trace of a seal.
Address, place of writing, and date are not in Burns's hand; all are probably written by [Robert] Riddell.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Cross / Edinburgh."
Endorsed: "Burns to / Peter Hill / in the Bards own / manner." Also with "Folio 98" written on the address panel.
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 (JU 14) and trace of a seal.
Provenance
George Wilson, grandson of Peter Hill; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson, 1902.
Summary
Observing that he is taking "Glenriddel's kind offer of a corner for a Postscript to you, though I have got nothing particular to tell you"; expressing his pleasure that Hill is "going on, spreading & thriving like the Palm-tree that shades the fragrant vale in the Holy Land of the Prophet."
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