Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1759–1796 - 1796
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
Album compiled by George Daniel.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11649
Scope and Contents
Contains poetic note by Robert Burns, undated, with reply by Robert Riddell and engravings by Thomas Stothard and others.
Dates:
1850.
Copies of "The Works of Robert Burns..." (Liverpool, 1800), and "Reliques of Robert Burns" (London, 1808), both annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9852
Dates:
1800-1808.
Copies of three appreciations of Wallace, Burns and Stevenson by Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11786
Scope and Contents
Re-published in 1905 by Aeneas Mackay, Stirling, being the publisher`s own copies including original letters of Lord Rosebery, 1905, tipped in.
Dates:
1905.
Copy of an autograph verse prologue of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10399
Scope and Contents
Verse begins "What needs this did about the town o` Lon`on...".
Dates:
circa 1790.
Copy of facsimile of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" (Kilmarnock, 1786), known as the Kilmarnock Burns, collated with the Edinburgh edition (1787), annotated by Prof Robert Dewar and with his notes inserted.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11010
Dates:
1927.
Copy of part of a letter of Robert Burns to Agnes McLehose, pseudonym Clarinda.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11776
Dates:
1793.
`Epistle to J. L*****k [John Lapraik], An Old Scotch Bard`., 1785
Item
Identifier: MS.23150, ff 1-2
Dates:
1785
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and poems of, and relating to, Robert Burns gathered by Adam Sim of Coulter; including letters of Allan Cunningham and of Robert Tannahill; with various newspaper cuttings and notes concerning the manuscript`s provenance.
"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: MS.50700
Scope and Contents
The "First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns is the earliest collected work written by the poet. Written before he achieved national status following the publication of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' (1786), Burns himself explained the need to create the volume, hoping that after his death it would fall into the hands of someone who would appreciate their value.The "First Commonplace Book" contains some of Burns's earliest surviving work and contains examples of Burns's...
Dates:
1783-1785.
First-day covers and other items of philatelic interest concerning Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.11733
Dates:
1971-1996.
Fragment of letter of Robert Burns to Robert Muir.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14488
Scope and Contents
On Burns's time in Edinburgh.
Dates:
1786.
Letter, 1795, of Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, tipped into an edition of "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1787).
Item
Identifier: Acc.14467
Dates:
1787, 1795.
Letter of Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, to Walter Severn on Burns, Scott and Keats.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12105
Dates:
1885.
Letter of Peter Hately Waddell, editor of Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11609
Scope and Contents
Waddell supplies his own autograph and those of Burns` daughter and granddaughter but regrets the impossibility of sending that of Burns himself.
Dates:
1877.
Letter of Prof John Stuart Blackie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10715
Scope and Contents
Concerns the life of Robert Burns.
Dates:
1890.
Letter of Robert Burns to Captain John Gillespie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7973
Scope and Contents
Incorporating an early version of "Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo".
Dates:
circa 1790.
Letter of Robert Burns to Captain John Gillespie., c. 1790.
Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 41-42
Scope and Contents
Contains a fragment of Burns`s Elegy to Miss Eliza Burnett.
Dates:
c. 1790.
Letter of Robert Burns to David Staig requesting a favour for a strolling player.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14171
Dates:
1793.
Letter of Robert Burns to Francis Grose referring to Tam O'Shanter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14169
Dates:
1790.
Letter of Robert Burns to James Smith on his relationship with Jean Armour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14168
Dates:
1786.
Letter of Robert Burns to John Somerville., 1791.
Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 47-48
Scope and Contents
Concerns the birth of Burns`s son.
Published in `The Letters of Robert Burns`.
Dates:
1791.
Letter of Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop., 1790.
Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 43-46
Scope and Contents
Concerns the literary merits of the journals `The Mirror` and `The Lounger`.
A small engraving of Burns is included.
Published in `The Letters of Robert Burns`.
Dates:
1790.
Letter of Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop., c. 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 49-50
Scope and Contents
Concerns Burns`s observations on hospitality, hard-drinking, and the excise.
Published in `The Letters of Robert Burns`.
Dates:
c. 1793.
Letter of Robert Burns to Mrs Frances Dunlop of Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11233
Scope and Contents
Concerns hospitality, hard drinking and Burns` advancement as an exciseman.
Dates:
1792-1793.
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