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"Journal of a few days from home in the summer of 1856 with selected poetry and songs".
Item
Identifier: MS.9233
Scope and Contents
The author was born near Dover, and describes himself as a 'middle class man engaged in the business of life', possibly a doctor or lawyer. After a brief stay in Edinburgh, he visited Perth, Bannockburn, Callander, Inversnaid, Glasgow, Oban, Inveraray, and Rothesay, and returned again to Glasgow. The text is interspersed with poetry and songs, and is profusely illustrated with floral cut-outs, small prints, and water-colours, mainly of views. Three pages and some of the illustrations have...
Dates:
1856.
Manuscript copy, with art-work, of Andrew Winton`s "Twenty most Favourite Songs of Burns: with Music, Words and Notes on the Lasses to whom they were Written" (London, 1998).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12138
Dates:
1998.
Manuscript drafts and printed copy of "Robin`s Christmas Song", original lyrics attributed to Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.10680
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.