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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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Additional Authors
Burns, Gilbert, 1760?-1827
Found In
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
Description
3 items
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
  • 77743982
Author
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Title
Robert Burns manuscript material.
Production
1783-1794
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 ..."
Biography
Robert Burns, Scottish poet.
Restricted Access
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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
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