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Robert Burns manuscript material.
- Title
- Robert Burns manuscript material.
- Author
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
- Publication
- 1783-1794
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Burns, Gilbert, 1760?-1827
- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 3 items
- Summary
- · Holograph poem, "On turning up a Mouse in her nest with the plough" : Nov 1783 : (MISC 2598) : 2 p.; begins, "Wee, sleeket, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, / O, what a panic's in thy breastie! / Thou need na start awa sae hasty / Wi' bickerin brattle." With a note in ink, in an unidentified hand, on the verso, "The original sketch of the 'Wee Mouse' by Burns presented by Earl of Shaftesbury to Elliott Cresson."
- · Holograph poem, "To a Woodlark -- for Mrs. Johnson" : Mar 1794 : (MISC 1017) : 2 p.; begins, "O, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay / Nor quit me for the trembling spray ..." With an ink note on the verso in an unidentified hand, "Burns Ms. / One of thee most beautiful / of Mr. Burns's latest efforts / Given to me by Mr. John / Armstrong -- 1815." Tipped into a copy of his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh, 1787). Shelved as *Pforz B-R 02.
- · To Gilbert Burns, his brother : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Jan 1790 : (MISC 0199) : [no place] : begins, "I mean to take advantage of the Frank though I have not in my present frame of mind much appetite for exertion in writing _ My nerves are in a damnable state ..."; expresses his despair at the ill success of his farm; with a long prologue he wrote for Mr. Sutherland for the New Year's performance at Dumfries, which begins, "No song nor dance I bring from yon great City / That queens it o'er our taste -- the more's the pity ..."
- Alternative Title
- To a mouse, on turning her up in her nest with the plough
- Address to the woodlark
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Robert Burns, Scottish poet.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 77743982
- Author
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
- Title
- Robert Burns manuscript material.
- Production
- 1783-1794
- Biography
- Robert Burns, Scottish poet.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Burns, Gilbert, 1760?-1827, addressee.Cresson, Elliott, 1796-1854. Former owner
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS