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Copies of three appreciations of Wallace, Burns and Stevenson by Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Re-published in 1905 by Aeneas Mackay, Stirling, being the publisher`s own copies including original letters of Lord Rosebery, 1905, tipped in.
Copy of part of a letter of Robert Burns to Agnes McLehose, pseudonym Clarinda.
Fragment of letter of Robert Burns to Robert Muir.
On Burns's time in Edinburgh.
Letter of Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, to Walter Severn on Burns, Scott and Keats.
Letter of Peter Hately Waddell, editor of Burns.
Waddell supplies his own autograph and those of Burns` daughter and granddaughter but regrets the impossibility of sending that of Burns himself.
Letter of Prof John Stuart Blackie.
Concerns the life of Robert Burns.
Letter of Robert Burns to Captain John Gillespie.
Incorporating an early version of "Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo".
Letter of Robert Burns to David Staig requesting a favour for a strolling player.
Letter of Robert Burns to Francis Grose referring to Tam O'Shanter.
Letter of Robert Burns to James Smith on his relationship with Jean Armour.
Letter of Robert Burns to Mrs Frances Dunlop of Dunlop.
Concerns hospitality, hard drinking and Burns` advancement as an exciseman.
Letter of Robert Burns to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton.
Concerns the new (Edinburgh) edition of Burns`s poems, on Milllar`s character and Burns`s progress in the world.
Letter of Robert Burns to Robert Graham of Fintry.
Concerning his training for the Excise service.
Letter of Robert Burns to William Scott.
On binding and distribution of his works.
Letter of Sir James Shaw, Lord Mayor of London, to J W Croker.
Concerns a proposed monument to Robert Burns.
Letter of Sir John Steell to John MacLaren.
Concerns Steell`s statue of Burns destined for the United States.
Letters of David Barnett, Lady Stair`s House Museum, Edinburgh, to May Merkley, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, on matters relating to Robert Burns.
Includes a lock of the hair of Burns`s widow Jean Armour and a copy of the deed relating to the Glenriddell Manuscripts.
Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;
Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;
Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;
Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;
Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.
Photocopy of letter of Robert Burns to William Cruikshank.
Includes the verses "Written in Friar`s Carse Hermitage".
Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.
Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.
Poem of Robert Bridges, "To Robert Burns"
With letter of Bridges to Sir Henry Newbolt.