Letter of Robert Burns to Andrew Fyfe, surgeon in Edinburgh, with an apparently contemporary drawing of Burns by Miss Bird, 'a lady artist'.
File
Identifier: MS.8486
Dates
- Creation: ?1787.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
2 Leaves ; Octavo.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
2 folios.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1954, by Miss Margaret Stewart Fyfe, London, a descendant of Andrew Fyfe.
Bibliography
The letter is number 105 in ‘The Letters of Robert Burns’ by J De Lancey Ferguson, second edition, volume i, edited by G Ross Roy (Oxford, 1985), page 114.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
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Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk