BIB_ID
363056
Accession number
MA 43.10
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1796 Jan. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24 cm
Notes
"Not printed" and "C 440" at the top of p. [1] in two different unknown hands.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Cross / Edinr." Also with the following note in Burns's hand: "wt. a kipper salmon."
Docketed. Also with notes "Folio 125" and "letter from Burns to P. Hill -- immaterial" in two different hands above 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 trace of a seal.
Addressed to "Mr. Peter Hill / Bookseller / Cross / Edinr." Also with the following note in Burns's hand: "wt. a kipper salmon."
Docketed. Also with notes "Folio 125" and "letter from Burns to P. Hill -- immaterial" in two different hands above 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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
George Wilson, grandson of Peter Hill; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson, 1902.
Summary
Sending Hill his "annual kipper"; asking him to make his compliments to Mrs. Hill, Cameron, and [David?] Ramsay; promising to write again in a week or ten days.
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