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Album compiled by George Daniel.

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Identifier: Acc.11649
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Contains poetic note by Robert Burns, undated, with reply by Robert Riddell and engravings by Thomas Stothard and others.

Dates: 1850.

Copies of three appreciations of Wallace, Burns and Stevenson by Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

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Identifier: Acc.11786
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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.

Copy of an autograph verse prologue of Robert Burns.

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Identifier: Acc.10399
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Verse begins "What needs this did about the town o` Lon`on...".

Dates: circa 1790.

"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.

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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.

Fragment of letter of Robert Burns to Robert Muir.

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Identifier: Acc.14488
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On Burns's time in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1786.

Letter of Peter Hately Waddell, editor of Burns.

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Identifier: Acc.11609
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Waddell supplies his own autograph and those of Burns` daughter and granddaughter but regrets the impossibility of sending that of Burns himself.

Dates: 1877.

Letter of Prof John Stuart Blackie.

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Identifier: Acc.10715
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Concerns the life of Robert Burns.

Dates: 1890.

Letter of Robert Burns to Captain John Gillespie.

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Identifier: Acc.7973
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Incorporating an early version of "Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo".

Dates: circa 1790.

Letter of Robert Burns to Mrs Frances Dunlop of Dunlop.

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Identifier: Acc.11233
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Concerns hospitality, hard drinking and Burns` advancement as an exciseman.

Dates: 1792-1793.

Letter of Robert Burns to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton.

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Identifier: Acc.11475
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Concerns the new (Edinburgh) edition of Burns`s poems, on Milllar`s character and Burns`s progress in the world.

Dates: circa 1787.

Letter of Robert Burns to Robert Graham of Fintry.

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Identifier: Acc.8367
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Concerning his training for the Excise service.

Dates: 1788.

Letter of Robert Burns to William Scott.

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Identifier: Acc.7896
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On binding and distribution of his works.

Dates: 1787.

Letter of Sir James Shaw, Lord Mayor of London, to J W Croker.

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Identifier: Acc.9321
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Concerns a proposed monument to Robert Burns.

Dates: 1815.

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Letters. Correspondence. 28
Poetry. 26
Manuscripts. 13
Photocopies. 7
Notes. 6
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English 66
Scots 2
Russian 1
 
Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Begg, Isabella Burns, sister of Robert Burns, poet, 1771-1858 2
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 2
Currie, James (physician) 2
Dunlop, Frances Anna (of Dunlop, née Wallace ) 2
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Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 2
Riddell, Robert, of Glenriddell, d 1794 2
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851 2
Amelia, Hill, 1820-1904 (née Paton, Sculptor, wife of David Octavius Hill) 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Barnett, David, Curator of Lady Stair's House Museum, Edinburgh, fl 1918-1936 1
Begg, Isabella, 1807-1886 (daughter of Isabella, sister of Robert Burns, poet) 1
Bell, Henry Glassford, 1803-1874 (writer and sheriff) 1
Blackie, John Stuart, Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh, 1809-1895 1
Boston Burns Club 1
Bridges, Robert Seymour (poet) 1
Brown, John, 1784-1858 (minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Theologian) 1
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 1
Carnegie, Andrew, philanthropist, 1835-1919 1
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780–1847 (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Craig, James Thomson Gibson-, Writer to the Signet, 1799-1886. 1
Craig, Robert, Beith, fl 1898 1
Crawford, Thomas, author of "Burns: a Study of the Poems and Songs", b 1920 1
Croker, John Wilson (politician) 1
Cruikshank, William, Master, Royal High School, Edinburgh, d 1795 1
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, 1837-1924 (travel writer) 1
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, travel writer, 1837-1924 1
Daniel, George, compiler of album including note by Robert Burns, fl 1850: collector 1
Dick, Robert, c 1733-1824 1
Faed, John, painter, 1819-1902 1
Ferrier, Jane, daughter of James, Writer to the Signet, 1767-1846 1
Gillespie, John, Captain, fl 1790 1
Graham, Robert, 12th of Fintry, 1749-1815: recipient 1
Grose, Francis, antiquary, 1731-1791 1
Hill, Ann, 1804-1841 (née Macdonald, wife of David Ocatvius Hill) 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Keats, John, poet, 1795-1821 1
Law, Alfred (mill owner) 1
Law, Alfred Joseph, Sir (Knight, politician) 1
Law, William (mill owner, and bilbliophile) 1
Lorimer, Robert Lewis Campbell, publisher, 1918-1996 1
MacKay, Aeneas Thomas, publisher, Stirling, fl 1905-1933 1
Macdonald, Ian H, fl 1968-1974 1
Macdonald, Jane, fl 1840-1853 1
Marshak, Samuil Iakovlevich , poet and translator, 1887-1964 1
McCandlish, John (Manager of the Scottish Union Insurance Office, Edinburgh) 1
McLehose, Agnes (née Craig, pseudonym 'Clarinda', correspondent of Robert Burns, poet) 1
McVie, John, Keeper of the Registers of Scotland, 1888-1967 1
Merkley, E May, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, fl 1918-1936: recipient 1
Millais, John Everett, Sir, 1st Baronet, 1829–1896 (painter) 1
Miller, Patrick, of Dalswinton, banker and inventor, 1731-1815 1
Moffat, Robert, missionary, 1795-1883 1
Motherwell, William, poet, 1797-1835 1
Muir, Robert (wine and spirit merchant) 1
Nasmyth, James Hall, engineer, 1808-1890 1
Newbolt, Henry John, Sir, Knight (poet) (1862-1938) 1
Niven, William, merchant in Maybole, 1759-1844 1
Renton, J C, correspondent of Robert Chambers, publisher, fl 1851: recipient 1
Renton, John, of Lamerton, fl 1787: recipient 1
Riddell, Maria (poet, née Woodley, then Riddell, then Fletcher) (1772-1808) 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 1
Royal Scottish Academy 1
Ruthven, Mary Hamilton, 1789-1885 (née Campbell, wife of 7th Lord Ruthven) 1
Scott, William, Edinburgh, bookbinder, fl 1775-1787 1
Severn, Walter, President of the Dudley Gallery Art Society, 1830-1904: recipient 1
Shaw, Sir James, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London, 1764-1843 1
Sim, Adam, of Coulter, 1805-1868.: former owner 1
Sloan, Thomas, correspondent of Robert Burns, floruit 1789-1791 1
Smith, James, draper, b.1765 1
Somerville, John, Edinburgh, writer, fl 1791 1
Staig, David, Provost of Dumfries, 1740-1824 1
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, Knight, explorer, formerly Rowlands, 1841-1904 1
Steell, Sir John Robert, Knight, Sculptor, 1804-1891 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 1
Stothard, Thomas, artist, 1755-1834 1
Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg, Count D'Albanie, (Jacobite Pretender) 1
Syme, John (Writer to the Signet) 1
Thomson, Joseph, 1858–1895 (explorer in Africa) 1
Train, Joseph, antiquary, 1779-1852 1
Tytler, Alexander Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee, historian and lawyer, 1747-1813 1
Tytler, William, of Woodhouselee, lawyer and historian, 1711-1792 1
Waddell, Peter Hately, independent divine, 1817-1891 1
Wallace, Sir William, Knight, guardian of Scotland, d 1305 1
Walsh, James, author and poet, fl. 1903. 1
Winton, Andrew S, art teacher, 1917-2001 1
Wright, Ronald William Vernon Selby, Minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh, 1908-1995 1
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