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Manuscript poem of Robert Burns, "Answer to a Tiviotdale Farmer`s Wife`s Epistle".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7748
Scope and Contents
Containing textual variations from the version published in James Kinsley`s edition of "The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns".
Dates:
1787.
Manuscript poem of Robert Burns, "Kind Sir I`ve Read your Paper through".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8252
Dates:
? 1790.
Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.50701-50706
Dates:
1781-1832.
Papers of James Logie Robertson.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6578/1-3
Scope and Contents
James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot’s Hospital and George Watson’s College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies’ College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of ‘Hugh Haliburton’, include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.
1. corrected manuscript, circa 1880, of "Orellana: a Poem"2. corrected...
Dates:
[Circa 1880]-1889.
Photocopy of autograph manuscript of Robert Burns, "Country Lassie".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10486
Dates:
circa 1780-1796.
Poem of Robert Burns, "It was the Charming Month of May", in pencil inked over (possibly by another hand), with variants from published text.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9649
Dates:
1794.
Robert Burns, "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1794), with additional poems in manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9217
Dates:
1794.
The only known autograph manuscript of the poem "Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria" by Robert Burns (Kinsley number 486).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10982
Dates:
circa 1794-1795.