Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1759–1796 - 1796
Found in 81 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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Copy of part of a letter of Robert Burns to Agnes McLehose, pseudonym Clarinda.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11776
Dates:
1793.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
`Epistle to J. L*****k [John Lapraik], An Old Scotch Bard`., 1785
Item
Identifier: MS.23150, ff 1-2
"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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
First-day covers and other items of philatelic interest concerning Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.11733
Dates:
1971-1996.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Fragment of letter of Robert Burns to Robert Muir.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14488
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letter of Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, to Walter Severn on Burns, Scott and Keats.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12105
Dates:
1885.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letter of Prof John Stuart Blackie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10715
Scope and Contents
Concerns the life of Robert Burns.
Dates:
1890.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letter of Robert Burns to Agnes MacLehose.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14631
Scope and Contents
On his future in the Excise and referencing a visit to Gavin Hamilton.
Contains information on the sale of the letter in 1975.
MacLehose scored through references to the "Excise", [Patrick] "Miller", and "Gavin Hamilton".
Dates:
1788.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letter of Robert Burns to Francis Grose referring to Tam O'Shanter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14169
Dates:
1790.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letter of Robert Burns to James Smith on his relationship with Jean Armour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14168
Dates:
1786.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letter of Robert Burns to John Somerville.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7974
Dates:
1791.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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 Dunlop of Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8810
Dates:
1790.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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