BIB_ID
81705
Accession number
MA 48.1
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (7 p., bound) ; 30.9 cm
Notes
"Humbly inscribed to W. Robert Aiken in Ayr."
A letter from Burns that once accompanied this poem was lost when the manuscript was still in the possession of the Aiken family; the letter included here refers to Burns' poem "Elegy on Sir James Hunter Blair" instead.
A letter from Burns that once accompanied this poem was lost when the manuscript was still in the possession of the Aiken family; the letter included here refers to Burns' poem "Elegy on Sir James Hunter Blair" instead.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1905.
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