Burns Paper Database: Tabular view

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ID	Repository	MS Title	MS Date	MS Year	Call No	Type	Paper	Description	Dimensions (mm)	Chain Line	Chain Width	Chain Direction	Watermarks	Countermark	Mill Location	Country of Origin	Watermark Date	Watermark Image Ref(s)	Document Image Ref(s)	Previously Recorded Information	Notes	References
1	Mitchell Library	Autograph revised manuscript of his famous song 'My Nanie's awa'	[1794]	[1794]	1,000,675	Verse	Laid	Brown ink on paper. Holograph poem on face; handwritten sums on rear. Bottom edge cut to give irregular edge/irregular dimensions. 2 prominent horizontal creases and 1 vertical crease visible on ms.	W157 H208	9	1"	Horizontal							1_1_MIT_Nanie_Face_Lightbox; 1_2_MIT_Nanie_Rear_Lighbox	Mitchell Note: Comprises title and 16 [18 including revisions] lines in quatrains, with autograph revisions to three lines. [Publication 1791: Mitchell Note]	1 of 3 ms copies of the Poem - G. Carruthers, 'A New Burns Song Manuscript at the Mitchell', presentation at International Robert Burns Conference, Glasgow, 2014. MS mentioned by Kinsley Poems II, who had access to photostat: "My Name's awa. Text from the Dalhousie MS (Utter to Thomson, 9 December 1794), collated with SC, 1799 (99). First-line title in SC; set to the air Coolun. A second MS, in U.S.A. (photostat supplied by Dr. J. W. Egerer), has springs in l. 9 and shows no other variation from the Dalhousie MS. The Aldine editor records a MS (not traced) with these variants: 1 blythe] gay MS"	K472
2	Mitchell Library	The Ordination	[1786]	[1786]	MS 50/12	Verse	Laid	Brown Ink on paper. Holograph poem covers four sides of folded sheet foolscap paper. Large vertical middle fold, with tape repair on reverse side of ms. 4 horizontal folds approx 73mm. *Ms framed by archivists meaning actual dimensions can't be recorded.	[W391 H311]*	16	1 inch app	Vertical	Britannia	Taylor	[Kent]	[England]		2_7_MIT_Ordination_Wmark_Face_p1;2_8_MIT_Ordination_Wmark_Rear_p1;2_9_MIT_Ordination_Wmar_Face_p4	2_1_MIT_Ordination_Face_Lightboox;2_2_MIT_Ordination_Rear_Lightbox; 2_3_MIT_Ordination_p1_Lightbox; 2_4_MIT_Ordination_p2_Lightbox; 2_5_MIT_Ordination_p3_Lightbox; 2_6_MIT_Ordination_p4_Lightbox	Satirical poem on the ordination of a minister in Kilmarnock. Bought in 1996 for bicentenary of Burns's death. Only known MS copy.	Poem composed 1786. K85	################
3	National Library of Scotland	The Battle of Sherra-moor			Acc. 13039	Verse	Laid	Ink on paper. Single sheet folded quarto, folded again vertically and horizontally. Repair on fold. Different hand: "25. On the Battle of Sherrif-muir between Dukes of Argyle + the Earl of Mar - xxx !! Copied [I.C.?]". P.1 reads "cv 2 of 282 [25?]"	H373 W226	9	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					3_4_NLS_Sherramoor_WM	3_1_NLS_Sherramoor_Face; 3_2_NLS_Sherramoor_Rear; 3_3_NLS_Sherramoor_Lbox		Recent accession
4	National Library of Scotland	Glenriddell Vol.1. p.1.	27 April 1791	1791	MS 86	Other	Laid	Part of bound vol. Sheet of wove paper attached to original ms. Half page cut from 15" x 9.5" sheet. Intro in Burns' hand and date on face. Blank rear. Ink on paper.	240H 188W	9	1"	Horizontal							4_1_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_p1 4_2_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_p1_Lbox			See NLS Catalogue of MSS Vol 1.1935 (86) and Preface to Facsimile edn.
5	National Library of Scotland	Glenriddell MS Vol.1, pp.7-10, 8-9.	[1791]	[1791]	MS 86	Other	Laid	Ink on paper. Verse in Burns' hand. Other hand pencil "219" on p.8.	380W 240H	9	1"	Horizontal		Z				5_4_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_pp7-10WM	5_1_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_pp7-10; 5_2_NLS_Glenridell_v1_pp8-9; 5_3_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_pp7-10Lbox
6	National Library of Scotland	Glenriddell MS vol.1., pp.5-12, 6-11.	[1791]	[1791]	MS 86	Other	Laid	3 different poems. Ink on paper. Burns' hand. Pencil notes in different hand: "Printed II 160" (p.6): "x[B?]", "MSS I 218" (p.11).	380W 240 H	9	1"	Horizontal	Lily and GR					6_6_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_pp5-12WM	6_1_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_pp5-12 6_2_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_pp6-11 6_3_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_p6Pencil 6_4_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_p11Pencil 6_5_NLS_Glenriddell_v1_pp5-12Lbox		Sample from Glenriddell ms. Rest of Glenriddell paper same dimensions with same alternating Z and GR Lily watermarks. For amanuensis hand, Burns's notes, and later editor's pencil notes notes, refer to facsimile edn.
7	National Library of Scotland	To William Nicol, Glendriddell Ms vol.2., f.8.			MS 87	Letter	Laid	Bound paper folded. Ink on paper. Watermark halved due to binding.	268H 212W	11	1"	Horizontal	Lily					7_3_NLS_Glenriddell_v2_LtrWmNicol_WM	7_1_NLS_Glenriddell_v2_LtrWmNicol 7_2_NLS_Glenriddell_v2_LtrWmNicol_Lbox	"The following Scots fragment I wrote, I think, from Carlisle sometime in 1787 to my friend Nicol" [Burns's note]	Size of paper larger than vol.1 of Glenriddell ms.
8	National Library of Scotland	Blank page, Glenriddell ms vol.2, f.138			MS 87	Other	Laid	Sample of blank page towards the end of ms. Watermark clearly visible but divided by fold.	268H 212W	11	1"	Horizontal	Lily					8_3_NLS_Glenriddell_v2_Blank_WM_Part1 8_4_NLS_Glenriddell_v2_Blank_Rear_WM_Part2	8_1_NLS_Glenriddell_v2_Blank_Lbox 8_2_NLS_Glenriddell_v2_Blank_Rear_Lbox
10	National Library of Scotland	A Prayer [var. of 'O Thou Dread Power']*			MS 661	Verse	Laid	2 sheets of paper stuck together, with last 2 verses on 2nd leaf stuck to 1st. Trimmed edges. 3 horizontal folds approx 3 1/4". Ink on paper. Burns's hand.	285H 163W	6	1"	Vertical		GR				10_3_NLS_Prayer_WM	10_1_NLS_Prayer 10_2_NLS_Prayer_Lbox	"The MS in the National Library of Scotland may be the original version left by Burns at Loudoun; it was given to the Library by Louisa Lawrie, a descendant of the minister." Kinsley, Poems K132	3 parts ms *variant of 'O Thou Dread Power' with different first line which later later reappears as first line in 'A Grace After Dinner'/'Grace after Meat', publ. Edinburgh Evening Courant 1789. Ms includes 1 holograph poem plus 1 later sheet paper with various notes in different hand. Cf. Entry 11.	K132; cf. K267
11	National Library of Scotland	Note accompanying 'A Prayer'			MS 661	Other	Laid	Small cut piece of paper with tear on top left corner and tear on right. Ink on paper. Not Burns's hand. Reads "Reform Axe"?. Trimmed edges.	190H 170W	7-8	1"	Horizontal	Lily					11_3_NLS_Prayer_App_WM	11_1_NLS_Prayer_App 11_2_NLS_Prayer_App_Lbox	"A Prayer" 25.IV.38. A poem by Robert Burns in his autograph. MS. 661	cf. 10.
12	National Library of Scotland	To John Richmond	9 July 1786	1786	MS 98	Letter	Laid	Single sheet of paper. Burns autograph. Ink on paper. Various hands notes in Margins. Address on back and remains of wax seal, docket title by another hand. Addressed to "Mr John Richmond / Clerk to Mr William Wilson / Writer to the Signet / Edinr"	315H 200W	8	1"	Vertical	Britannia					12_4_NLS_LtrJnRichmond_WM	12_1_NLS_LtrJnRichmond 12_2_NLS_LtrJnRichmond_Rear 12_3_NLS_LtrJnRichmond_Lbox	H1: Note about date. "Poet Burness-/ Mossgiel- / 9 July 1786 H2: Note on provenance on ms: "Presented to "Mr [James] Grierson of [Daly****?] this 15 Janry 1817 by John Richmond." [H3?] on the date given on ms: "This gives the date of printing the first edition by Wilson at Kilmarnock" [etc. See ms and images for further marginalia]	Various notes on ms in other hands concerning e.g. the date of the ms submitted to printer John Wilson (poem was probably written in first half of 1780s) plus a note on provenance. See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Cunningham, 1834. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The MS. is slightly torn and the letters in brackets are wanting. It is docketed by Richmond: 'Poet Burness—Mossgiell 9 July 1786 Ansd 14th'."	Letters 33 (2)
14	National Library of Scotland	To Alexander Findlater	[June 1791]	[1791]	Adv MS 20.4.10	Letter	Laid	Ink on paper. Autographed letter. Addressed to 'Mr. Findlater'. One landscape sheet with vertical centre fold, then folded twice vertically.	185H 243W	9	1"	Vertical	Lily					14_4_NLS_LtrAFindlater1791_wm	14_1_NLS_LtrAFindlater1791 14_2_NLS_LtrAFindlater1791 14_3_NLS_LtrAFindlater1791_Lbox	letter of (1791), 20.4.10.	See Ferguson Roy Letters II	Letters 460 (6)
15	National Library of Scotland	Statement by of expenditure on the Rosamond (1792), 910, f.55.	1792	1792	MS 910	Excise	Laid	Ink on printed excise paper. 8 blank printed receipts on sheet. Notes by Burns on rear of paper. Folded vertically then folded again, making top face exposed and dirty. Top face reads 'Rosamond Papers' in another hand. Two halves seperated before bound.	390W 318H		1"	Vertical	Georgian Arms	[J.B.]				15_7_NLS_Rosamond_cm 15_8_NLS_Rosamond_wm 15_9_NLS_Rosamond_wm 15_10_NLS_Rosamond_wm	15_1_NLS_Rosamond 15_2_NLS_Rosamond 15_3_NLS_Rosamond 15_4_NLS_Rosamond 15_5_NLS_Rosamond 15_6_NLS_Rosamond_Lbox	Statement by of expenditure on the Rosamond (1792), 910, f.55. 'Rosamond Papers' written on one side of ms in another hand	Watermark barely visible due to dirt on paper but Coronet, crest and laurel visible - see enhanced jpeg. Stylised initials on countermark.
16	National Library of Scotland	Excise entry in hand of	12 August 1790	1790	MS 1654	Excise	Laid	Ink on Paper. Crown octavo? Excise entry in Burns' autograph both sides. Dated on one side "12th Aug. 1790".	175W 125H	4	1"	Horizontal							16_1_NLS_1654f1 16_2_NLS_1654f1 16_3_NLS_1654f1_Lbox	68 BURNS (Robert) 2 Excise Certificates filled up in his autograph, 2 pp. 8vo, 1790	Bound in Illustrated vol Cromek's Reliques of Burns Part 1
17	National Library of Scotland	Letter to John Murdoch	15 January 1783	1783	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Ink on Paper. Autograph letter addressed to John Murdoch, Shoolmaster in Staple inn buildings, London. Large sheet folded. Envelope. Other hands, ink, with sums and fragment of Lord's Prayer	320H 400W	16	1"	Vertical	Pro Patria	GR				17_5_NLS_Watson1_cm 17_6_NLS_Watson1_wm 17_7_NLS_Watson1_wm 17_8_NLS_Watson1_wm[enhanced]	17_1_NLS_Watson1 17_2_NLS_Watson1 17_3_NLS_Watson1 17_4_NLS_Watson1_Lbox	1. To Mr.John Murdoch, London Lochlee January 15. 1783 f.7 (no.1118) Kinsley 490	Dutch Pro Patria watermark. Citadel walls and figure holding spear visible inside right of citadel and lion holding scimitar and bushel of arrows to left. See e.g. Churchill 1935, 139 for example of Dutch paper made for English market.	Letters 13 (1)
18	National Library of Scotland	Burn's mason mark, Watson Autograph Collection p.2 f.3	1786	1786	MS 586	Other	Laid	Ink on small irregular-sided piece of paper. Burns' sautograph. Folded in half then half again.	90H 153W										18_1_NLS_Watson2 18_2_NLS_Watson2	2.Entry from Free Mason's Lodge Book, Tarbolton, April 14. 1786. Burns's mason mark from books of Tarbolton Lodge	Paper stuck to backing card. Details can't be recorded.
19	National Library of Scotland	To David Brice, Glasgow, Watson Collection	12 June 1786	1786	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Ink on paper. Burns autograph letter to 'Dr Brice'. One sheet, both sides written on. Repairs to folds.	242H 190W				Post					19_4_NLS_ToBrice86_wm	19_1_NLS_ToBrice86 19_2_NLS_ToBrice86 19_3_NLS_ToBrice86_Lbox	To "Dear Brice" Glasgow, Mossgiel June 12. 1786.		Letters 31
20	National Library of Scotland	To Mr Ballantyne Ayr, Watson Collection p.4.	[1786]	[1786]	MS 586	Note	Laid	Ink on paper. Note with Burns's autograph addressed one side to John Ballantyne Esq.	228H 187W	7	1"	Horizontal		GR				20_4_NLS_Watson4_wm 20_5_NLS_Watson4_wm	20_1_NLS_Watson4 20_2_NLS_Watson4 20_3_NLS_Watson4_Lbox	To Mr Ballantyne. Ayr. Simpson's (1786?)	Note enclosing verse See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Wallace, 1896. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. Previous editors have suggested that this letter pre-dated Letter 51. Each of the letters, it was suggested, contained The Brigs of Ayr, which seems highly unlikely. It appears probable that at Mossgiel Burns wrote Letter 51 intending to send the poem with it to Ballantine, but failed to do so, perhaps because he planned shortly to make a trip to Ayr. He probably did so a few days later and sent the poem and this note to Ballantine from Simpson's tavern where he waited for his friend to join him."	Letters 51C (3)
21	National Library of Scotland	To Mr Beugo, Watson Collection p.5	[Dec?] 1787	1787	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Ink on paper. Burns' autograph note on one side of paper. Main center fold then two horizontal folds to form 3"x 4.5" envelope.	225W 187H	9	1"	Vertical		J. Buttanshaw	Hamptons Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		21_3_NLS_Watson5_wm	21_1_NLS_Watson5 21_2_NLS_Watson5_Lbox	To Mr. Beugo, Engraver, Edinburgh. St. James' Square. Tuesday even (March 1787)	Dated in Ferguson Roy edn.	Letters, 156 (1); Mackay, Letters p.767 (on forgery of letters to Buego); Churchill 1935, p.49; Shorter 1971, 60, 102 (papermaker)
22	National Library of Scotland	Elegy on Mr William Cruikshank, Watson Collection p.6	[1795]	[1795]	MS 586	Verse Fragment	Laid	Ink on Paper. Burns holograph verse on face. Mounted on blue backing paper with note in other hand regarding ms in pencil on rear.	170W 83H										22_1_NLS_Watson6	Elegy on Mr. William Cruikshank A.M. (1787); Note on rear: 'This was written in Mrs Morton's house by Burns'	Ms stuck to backing paper. No further details/images recorded. Date from Kinsley Poems II	K490
23	National Library of Scotland	Epigram to Mr Elphinstone, translator of Martial's Epigrams, Watson Collection p.7	[1787]	[1787]	MS 586	Verse	Laid	Ink on fragment of paper. Burns's autograph	158W 83H	3	1"	Horizontal							23_1_NLS_Watson7 23_2_NLS_Watson7_Lbox	To Mr Elphistone tranlsator of Martials Epigrams (1787)	Mentioned in letter to Clarinda 14 Jan 1788: "I was sitting in a merchant shop of my acquaintance, waiting somebody; he put Elphinstone into my hand, and asked my opinion of it; I begged leave to write it on a blank leaf, which I did—"; cf.203 and 211.	Letters, 178 (13). Burns Encyclopedia s.v. 'Elphinstone, James (1721-1809)'; Young, 'Parcel of mash'd old rags' Burns Chronicle, 2016
24	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Lord Monboddo 30 Dec 1786, Watson Collection p.8	[30? December 1786]	[1786]	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Damaged holograph letter mounted on backing card. Ms torn but contents and signature visible. Note in red ink by other hand (H2) on face of backing card and name 'Burns' in other hand (H3) on top left of backing card.	182W 150H			Horizontal	Unidentified	Unidentified					24_1_NLS_Watson8	To Lord Monboddo Saturday Eve (30 Decr 1787); H2: 'Holograph Letter of Robert Burns the poet accepting an invitation to Lord Mondboodo's to dinner and sending the "Fair Burnet" his daughter "Miss Eliza" a song she wanted with one or two more'	See Ferguson Roy Letters I for date: "Douglas, 1877. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The MS. is torn, and the words in brackets are conjectural. A facsimile was published containing the word 'My'."	Letters 69
25	National Library of Scotland	Fragment: The Devil's Daybook, Watson Collection p.9	[25 June 1787]	[1787]	MS 586	Fragment	Laid	Mounted fragment in Burns' holograph on face and rear. 3 other hands on face of mount, each on their own paper which has then been stuck together to form mount.	185W 49H	1		Horizontal							25_1_NLS_Watson9 25_2_NLS_Watson9_Lbox	Autograph scrap, "The Devil's Daybook" (25 June 1787); H2: 'Robert Ainslie 178[1?] Edinburgh'; H3: 'What is a[n?][s?]***ed below is in the hand-writing of Burns & part of a letter from him to R Ainslie.'; [cont. in 'Notes' below]	H4: 'On the other side of the fragment is written also in Burns' holograph "Arochar, near Crochard [as?], by Loch Loang" "My dear Friend & brother Arch" "June, 25th, 1787"'
26	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Mrs McLehose, Watson Collection p.10	25 January 1788	1788	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Autograph [pseud. Sylvander] letter, ink on paper. Vertical fold in centre then folded again vertically then horizontally to make 4 1/2" x 3"envelope. Address has been scored out with ink.	378W 230H	9	1"	Horizontal		C. Taylor	Maidstone, Kent	England		26_4_NLS_Watson_Lbox 26_5_NLS_Watson_wm	26_1_NLS_Watson10 26_2_NLS_Watson10 26_3_NLS_Watson10	Letter to Mrs McLehose (Clarinda) (25 January 1788)	Address effaced. See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "M'Lehose, 1843; corrected and completed by Wallace, 1896. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The MS. is torn, and the bracketed words are from M'Lehose. The address has been too heavily scored through to read." C. Taylor 1768-90 listed in Churchill 1935, p.53 British Paper-Makers and Mills.	Letters 187 (20); Shorter 1971, 40-1, 60, 61, 70, 91
27	National Library of Scotland	To Robert Graham, Watson Collection p.11	16 September 1788	1788	MS 586	Verse Epistle	Laid	Holograph verse epistle, ink on paper. Folio sheet further folds suggesting it was folded into an envelope. Repair on bottom quarter of ff.3-4 where bottom of ms has torn off under fold (the missing lines in private ownership previously recorded)	370W 230H	10	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					27_4_NLS_Watson11_Lbox 27_5_NLS_Watson11_Lbox 27_6_NLS_Watson11_wm 27_7_NLS_Watson11_wm 27_8_NLS_Watson11_wm	27_1_NLS_Watson11 27_2_NLS_Watson11 27_3_NLS_Watson11	"To Robert Graham of Fintry (10 Septr. 1788)". "Kinsley 230; BvR 1147 Lacuna in f.14:- Kinsley Missing four lines identified in the possession of a private owner, June 2012"*	*Interleaved photocopy of missing lines included in Watson collection.	K230
28	National Library of Scotland	[Caledonia] Song to tune "Caledonian Hunt's Delight", Watson Collection p.12	23 January [1789]	[1789]	MS 586	Verse	Laid	Song for James Johnson, ink on paper. Folio foolscap sheet with verses ff.1-3 and address to James Johnson Edinr on last, after folding to make envelope. Various repairs to bottom right of f.1, and two repairs to ff.2-3.	308W 333H	8	1"	Vertical	Britannia	Band	Somerset	England		28_4_NLS_Watson12_cm 28_5_NLS_Watson12_cm 28_6_NLS_Watson12_Lbox 28_7_NLS_Watson12_Lbox 28_8_NLS_Watson12_wm	28_1_NLS_Watson12 28_2_NLS_Watson12 28_3_NLS_Watson12	Verses for the Tune "Caledonian Hunt's Delight" 23 January (1789)	See Kinsley Poems I: "Caledonia. Text from the Watson MS (1124; Letter to Johnson, 23 January 1789), collated with the Alloway MS (Al) and Currie (iv. 352–4). Title from Currie; tune only in MSS. In Al ll. 41–48 are written on f. 2v, though there is ample space on f. 2r; they are probably a later addition 253. Sent to Johnson for SMM on 23 January 1789 (Letter 303)." Churchill 1935, p.48 lists Band & Son 1783 in list of British paper-makers and mills.	K253; Churchill 1935, p.48; Shorter 1971, 60
29	National Library of Scotland	To Mr William Burns, Watson Collection p.13	25 March 1789	1789	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Autograph note enclosing verse. Ink on Paper. Half-sheet foolscap paper, cut at top edge; folded into envelope, addressed to William Burns / Saddler / Longtown. Remains of wax seal. Slight tear on one fold and some staining from moisture on bottom edge.	310W 208H	8	1"	Horizontal	Britannia					29_4_NLS_Watson13_Lbox 29_5_NLS_Watson13_wm	29_1_NLS_Watson13 29_2_NLS_Watson13 29_3_NLS_Watson13	To Mr William Burns, Longtown Isle. 25 March 1789	Cf. Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Hogg & Motherwell, 1835. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The MS. is damp-stained and the bracketed portion is illegible. In answer to a letter from William of 22 Mar"	Letters 323 (3)
30	National Library of Scotland	First sketch for "The Whistle", Watson Collection p.14	[1789]	[1789]	MS 586	Verse	Laid	Holograph verse. Ink on Paper. Paper lined on reverse, suggesting a fragment of vertically lined ledger paper from Excise. H2 note on reverse.	330H 208W	8	1"	Vertical		GR				30_3_NLS_Watson14_Lbox 30_4_NLS_Watson14_wm	30_1_NLS_Watson14 30_2_NLS_Watson14	First sketch for "The Whistle" (1789) H2: "First sketch of the Whistle / published"	Burns started as excise man in Dumfries 1789.	K272
31	National Library of Scotland	'Address to Beelzebub', Watson p.15	[1 June 1786]	[1786]	MS 586	Verse	Laid	Holograph verse satire, ink on paper. Repair to right of f.3; another hand has completed missing characters in pencil.	380W 240H	10	1"	Horizontal	Post	L.V.Gerrevink	Alkmaar	Holland		31_4_NLS_Watson15_Lbox 31_5_NLS_Watson15_wm 31_6_NLS_Watson15_Lbox 31_7_NLS_Watson15_wm	31_1_NLS_Watson15 31_2_NLS_Watson15 31_3_NLS_Watson15	Lines to Lord Breadalbane "Hell" 1 June 5790. "(Masonic Reckoning)".	Dutch watermark. Interleaved clipping re. Earl of Breadalbane pasted opposite.	K108; Churchill 1935 318
32	National Library of Scotland	To Mr. John Murdoch, Watson p.16	16 July 1790	1790	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, 2 sides of folded sheet, address to Mr John Murdoch / Teacher of French / London on rear.	410W x 255H	10	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					32_4_NLS_Watson16_Lbox 32_5_NLS_Watson16_wm 32_6_NLS_Watson16_wm	32_1_NLS_Watson16 32_2_NLS_Watson16 32_3_NLS_Watson16	To Mr. John Murdoch. London Ellisland 16 July 1790.	Churchill p.46 lists Dutch paper made in 1780s for British market.	Letters 405 (2)
33	National Library of Scotland	To William Tytler of Woodhouselee, Watson p.17	[August 1787]	[1787]	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter. Half-sheet . Note to Tytler face and address on rear. Repair to right of face.	345H 195W	7	1"	Vertical		GR				33_3_NLS_Watson17_Lbox 33_4_NLS_Watson17_wm	33_1_NLS_Watson17 33_2_NLS_Watson17	To William Tytler Esq of Woodhouselee Lawnmarket Monday Noon (August 1790)	For accompanying verses, see entries 45 and 46. For confusion about date see Ferguson Roy Letters I: "R. H. Cromek, ed., Select Scotish Songs, Ancient and Modern, 1810, where it is dated 1790. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The addressee's full name, William Tytler of Woodhouselee, is written on the cover in another hand."	Letters 126 (2)
34	National Library of Scotland	To Alexander Cunningham, Watson p.18	8 August 1790	1790	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, half sheet. Repair to left of face where damage to start of lines is apparent near where left fold would be.	253H 197W	10	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					34_2_NLS_Watson18_Lbox 34_3_NLS_Watson18_wm	34_1_NLS_Watson18	To Alexander Cunningham Esq. Edinburgh. Ellisland. 8 August 1790.	See Fergusonn Roy Letters II for details on MS: "Currie, 1800, in part; completed in Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The MS. is torn and bracketed portions are conjectural."	Letters 411B (5)
35	National Library of Scotland	To Mrs Mclehose "Sensibility how charming", Watson p.19 (1)	[July? 1791]	[1791]	MS 586	Letter Verse	Laid	Holograph letter and verse on rear. Ink on half-sheet paper. Part of paper torn of at bottom. Signature removed?	200H 200W	8	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					35_2_NLS_Watson_19(1)_Lbox 35_3_NLS_Watson_19(1)_wm	35_1_NLS_Watson_19(1)	To Mrs McLehose, Edinburgh (August 1791?) [cf. Ferguson Roy's date of July]	Watermark halved with paper shows bottom of Horn, with 'H' in shield suggesting same paper as 32, 34. Signature removed cf. 35. Pagination error in Watson with Lament of MQS, repaginated to 19.1 and 19.2 respectively. See Ferguson Roy Letters II for further details on MS and date: "M'Lehose, 1843. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The MS. is in two parts, and even so is apparently incomplete. One part bears the main portion of the letter on the recto, and the verses on the verso; the other, a fragment bearing the words 'you must be ever' and the third quotation on one side and the three concluding sentences on the other, is attached to a cover addressed to George Thomson in Burns's hand, which is apparently the address to Letter 602."	Letters 462 (46)
36	National Library of Scotland	Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, Watson p.19(2)	[1791]	[1791]	MS 586	Verse	Laid	Holograph verse, ink on folded paper. Repair on bottom left of f.3 suggests signature was removed. Addressed to Mrs McLehose / Lamont's Land / Cannongate / Edinr.	390W 240H	9	1"	Horizontal	Lily					36_4_NLS_Watson19(2)_Lbox 36_5_NLS_Watson19(2)_wm 36_6_NLS_Watson19(2)_wm	36_1_NLS_Watson19(2) 36_2_NLS_Watson19(2) 36_3_NLS_Watson19(2)	19.2 Lament of Mary Queen of Scots in letter dated " Leadhills, Thursday noon [cf. Letters 484 (48)	Signature removed See Kinsley Poems II: "Lament of Mary Queen of Scots. Text from the Edinburgh edition, 1793, collated with the Bixby MSS (A, B), the Alloway MS (Al), the Lochryan MS (Loch; Utter to Mrs. Dunlop, 6 June 1790), the Fintry MS (letter to Mrs. Graham, 10 June 1790), the Afton Lodge MS, the Watson MS (1132; Letter to Clarinda, 11 December 1791), MSS Adam, Esty, Glenriddell (Glen; pp. 114-17; transcript), Kilmarnock (Kil), Huntington Library (HL), and Texas, SMM, 1796 (404; signed B), and the edition of 1794."	K316; Letters 484 (48)
37	National Library of Scotland	To John Ballantyne "Address to the Shade of Thomson", Watson p.20	[September 1791]	[1791]	MS 586	Letter Verse	Laid	Autograph letter and verse. Envelope/address on last sheet.	410W 258H	10	1"	Horizontal		[LVG]		Holland		37_4_NLS_Watson20_Lbox 37_5_NLS_Watson20_wm 37_6_NLS_Watson20_Lbox 37_7_NLS_Watson20_wm	37_1_NLS_Watson20 37_2_NLS_Watson20 37_3_NLS_Watson20	To John Ballantyne Esq, Ayr (Setember 1791)	Partial watermark on fold, but likely to be 'LVG'.	K331; Letters 468 (12)
38	National Library of Scotland	To Mrs McLehose; 'Ae Fond Kiss'; 'Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive'; 'Thou Gloomy Deccember', Watson p.21	27 December 1791	1791	MS 586	Letter Verse	Laid	Holograph dedication and 3 songs, ink on folded paper, addressed on rear to Mrs McIlhose/ Lamont's Land, Cannongate / Edinr. Signs of red wax seal and damage from opening. Dumfries postmark runs over sealed edge.	370W 225H	9	1"	Horizontal		[I.] Taylor	Basted, Kent	England		38_9_NLS_Watson21_Lbox 38_10_NLS_Watson21_Lbox 38_11_NLS_Watson21_Lbox 38_12_NLS_Watson21_wm 38_13_NLS_Watson21_wm 38_14_NLS_Watson21_Lbox	38_1_NLS_Watson21 38_2_NLS_Watson21 38_3_NLS_Watson21 38_4_NLS_Watson21 38_5_NLS_Watson21 38_6_NLS_Watson21 38_7_NLS_Watson21 38_8_NLS_Watson21 38_15_NLS_Watson21(2)	To Mrs McLehose. Edinburgh Dumfries 27 Decr. 1791. Removal notices for exhibitions on mounting: 43, 64, Royal Museum June Sep 96 and Dick Institute 96-97, July 2003 for Burns Fed., Nov 2003 Barrel Vaults, Oct 2008-Dec 2009 Homecoming	Watermarked halved by fold but half of 'Taylor' discernible. Possibly the British Paper Maker 'I. Taylor' (1746-94) listed in Churchill 1935, p.53.	K337; K431; K336; Letters 486 (50); Shorter 1957, pp.364-65 for examples of I. Taylor watermarks
39	National Library of Scotland	'Monody on Maria'; 'Pinned to Mrs R——'s carriage', Watson p.22	[25 June 1794]	[1794]	MS 586	Letter Verse	Laid	Holograph verse and note sent to McLehose regarding Maria Riddell, ink on paper.		9		Horizontal	Post					39_5_NLS_Watson22_Lbox 39_6_NLS_Watson22_wm 39_7_NLS_Watson22_wm 39_8_NLS_Watson22_Lbox 39_9_NLS_Watson22_wm	39_1_NLS_Watson22 39_2_NLS_Watson22 39_3_NLS_Watson22 39_4_NLS_Watson22	(To Mrs. McLehose Edinburgh; Removed for display in Burns national treasures exhibition until March 2014 - Sally Hanover "Monody on Mrs. R." 1794 See Kinsley, Poems, vol.2: "A tasteless libel on Maria Riddell, following her estrangement from Burns in December 1793 (see 438, introductory note); followed by 448 in the Watson MS. The subject of both poems, Burns told Clarinda, 'is a woman of fashion in this country, with whom, at one period, I was well acquainted.—By some scandalous conduct to me, and two or three other gentlemen here as well as me, she steered so far to the north of my good opinion, that I have made her the theme of several illnatured things' (Letter 629; ?25 June 1794). But it seems, from what evidence survives, that Maria's 'scandalous conduct' was no more than a rebuke to Burns for his drunken behaviour at Friars Carse (see J. De L. Ferguson, 'Robert Burns and Maria Riddell', Modern Philology, xxviii (1930), 169–84). Ferguson places the Lochryan MS (a letter to Mrs. Dunlop) later than the letter to Clarinda. But (i) Burns tells Mrs. Dunlop that the Monody was written 'the other day on a fantastical fine-fashioned Dame of my acquaintance'; (ii) he talks of the chance of their meeting when he comes to Ayrshire 'in Summer'; and (iii) Mrs. Dunlop's reply, suggesting that Burns should come to see her in 'a month or two' since she will be away perhaps till 'midsummer at least', is dated 21 March (see Correspondence, pp. 399–402). Cf. 449, note. Wallace dates Burns's letter 13 March. Clarinda's copy is an improvement on Mrs. Dunlop's in 11. 1–3; and it is likely that 11. 5–8 and 17–20 were added after mid-March. On the metre, see 27, introductory note."	Monody on Mrs Ridell. Removed for display in Burns' treasures exhibition Jan-March 2014 Date from Kinsley.	K443; K448
40	National Library of Scotland	To James Johnson, 'The Bob o Dumblane', Watson p.23	[1795]	[1795]	MS 586	Letter Verse	Laid	2 sheets on separate pages of Watson ms. Autograph letter and verse. 2nd sheet 'framed' with card.	500W 405H	10	1"	Vertical	Post and GR	I. Taylor	Basted, Kent	England	1794	40_7_NLS_Watson23_Lbox 40_8_NLS_Watson23_cm 40_9_NLS_Watson23_cm 40_10_NLS_Watson23_wm 40_11_NLS_Watson23_wm	40_1_NLS_Watson23 40_2_NLS_Watson23 40_3_NLS_Watson23 40_4_NLS_Watson23 40_5_NLS_Watson23 40_6_NLS_Watson23	(To James Johnstone) 2 sheets with verses etc. (1794 circa) From Kinsley, Poems, vol.2: "513. Communicated by Burns to Johnson in the autumn of 1795 (Letter 684), for the fifth volume of SMM. The song did not appear in SMM, probably because of its obscene metaphors. On the associations of the title, see 573, notes. 'Hemp-heckle' (flax-comb) and '(th)ripplin kame' (a comb for separating the bolls of flax from the stem) are used equivocally. The air is in Orpheus Caledonius, 1733, no. 45,* with the words from Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany: Lassie, lend me your braw hemp Heckle, / And I'll lend you my thripling Kame; / For fainness, Deary, I'll gar ye keckle, / If ye'll go dance the Bob of Dumblane…. This, says Burns, is Ramsay's work. 'The original … I learned on the spot, from my Hostess in the principal Inn there [in 1787]' (Notes on Scots songs; Edinburgh University Laing MSS; Burns Chronicle, 1922, pp. 5–6)."	'I. Taylor 1794'. Churchill p.53 confirms I. Taylor operating 1746-94.	K513; See Shorter 1957, p.365 for example of Taylor 1794 watermark.
41	National Library of Scotland	To Patrick Miller Esq, "There cam a Soger", Watson p.24	8 March 1795	1795	MS 586	Letter	Laid	Small holograph envelope 24.1 and autograph letter 24.2.	368W 222H	10	1"	Horizontal		Edmeads & Pine	Ivy Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		41_6_NLS_Watson24_Lbox 41_7_NLS_Watson24_wm 41_8_NLS_Watson24_Lbox 41_9_NLS_Watson24_wm 41_10_NLS_Watson24_wm 41_11_NLS_Watson24_wm 41_12_NLS_Watson24_wm	41_1_NLS_Watson24 41_2_NLS_Watson24 41_3_NLS_Watson24 41_4_NLS_Watson24 41_5_NLS_Watson24	To Patrick Miller Esq of Dalswinton "March 8th" (8 March 1795) Interleaved clipping on opposite page: "Mr is referred to in the "Fice Carlins," as a candidate for the House of Commons…"	Watermark apparent but only half of name. cf. Entry 146 of similar date from Dumfries See Ferguson Roy Letters II: "Wallace, 1896. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. In reply to a letter from Miller of 9 Feb"	Letters 659 (3); Shorter 1971, p.60
42	National Library of Scotland	To Alex Cunningham, "Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear", Watson p.25	12 July 1796	1796	MS 586	Letter Verse	Laid	Autograph note and copy of song for Thomson. Ink on paper. Folded into envelope. Addressed to Cunnigham 7 George Street Edinr. Dumfries postmark. Red post stamp [JY / 12]. Note in Currie's hand in ink on reverse above address.	258H 203W	10		Horizontal		Unidentified				42_3_NLS_Watson25_Lbox 42_4_NLS_Watson25_wm 42_4_NLS_Watson25_wm_enhanced	42_1_NLS_Watson25 42_2_NLS_Watson25	To Alex Cunningham Esq, Edinburgh (1796). On rear, H2 [Currie]: "Burns to Cunnigham about a fortnight before the Bard's death two admirable pieces - Songs [2 lines scored out] 2d very beautiful Song" From Kinsley, Poems, vol.2: "518. Sent to Thomson in May 1796; 'I have only just begun with it' (Letter 694). Burns was mortally ill; and a copy of the song was sent to Alexander Cunningham on 12 July as 'the last I made or probably will make for some time' (Letter 704). Currie assumed (iv. 262) that the additional stanza found among Burns's papers 'completes this exquisite song'; but it is more likely that Burns withdrew the stanza (the final line is deplorable) and sent Thomson what he intended to be his final version. Cunningham's copy, written only nine days before Burns died, lacks a third stanza. For the air, see 391."	Only a small part of the countermark name is visible on the edge of the fold. Date from postmark, supported by Kinsley.	K518; Letters 704 (19)
43	National Library of Scotland	Address & 4 lines to George Thomson, Watson p.26			MS 586	Fragment	Laid	Holograph fragment stuck to envelope stuck to mounting card on left. 4 lines of a note to Thomson, ink on paper.		?	?	?						43_3_NLS_Watson26_Lbox	43_1_NLS_Watson26 43_2_NLS_Watson26	Address + 4 lines to George Thomson, Edinburgh H2: "For my worthy friend W. S. Watson. G.S."	Unable to record because of the two different pieces stuck together. 2" x 8" fragment stuck to envelope 5" x 8"
44	National Library of Scotland	Burns' earliest autograph, Watson p.27	[1772]	[1772]	MS 586	Other	Laid	Small leaf of accounts with example of Burns hand, in on paper. Framed and mounted. Note on mounting by Gilbert Burns.	150H 91W	3	1"	Vertical						44_4_NLS_Watson27_Lbox	44_1_NLS_Watson27 44_2_NLS_Watson27 44_3_NLS_Watson27	27. Burns' Earliest Autograph [H2:][ca. 1772]. "The above (apparently a leaf from an account book) is chiefly in the handwriting of my grandfather,William Burnes, the father of the Poet. The entry 'a hoe mended' is, I think, after comparing [cont…]	[…CONT] it with specimens of his writing of an early date, the handwriting of the Poet himself. It is probably the earliest specimen of his writing extant. He would then be nearly fourteen years of age." Gilbert Burns. July 1854
45	National Library of Scotland	'The rowin 't in her Apron'/Stanza to tune Bonie Dundee/Erratum/'Young Hynhorn'/, Watson p.28	[August 1790]	[1790]	MS 586	Verse	Laid	Folded page with versions of 3 songs in Burns' hand, 'The rowin't in her apron' (with additional first stanza), 'My Tocher's the Jewel', 'Young Hyndhorn'. Pencil added '&c.' to verses of 'Young Hyndhorn'	394W 320H	15	1"	Vertical	Lion	GR				45_4_NLS_Watson28_Lbox 45_5_NLS_Watson28_wm 45_6_NLS_Watson28_Lbox 45_7_NLS_Watson28_cm	45_1_NLS_Watson28 45_2_NLS_Watson28 45_3_NLS_Watson28	4 pages of Burns' writing, songs etc. Pencil notes in contents covering Watson 28, 29: 'sent to William Tytler of Woodhouselea August 1790' [H2?] 'Shared probably 90 with no.17' [i.e. probably sent with letter to Tytler collected in Watson p.17]	cf. 33, 46: Probably the verses sent to Tytler entry 33 accompanying entry 46.	K561; K663
46	National Library of Scotland	Fragments/', Watson p.29	[August 1790]	[1790]	MS 586	Fragment	Laid	Fragment of verse in Burns' hand, ink on paper. 'Nae birdies sand the mirky hour…', 'The Lass o' Liviston', 'Rob Roy from the Highlands cam'	394W 320H	16	1"	Vertical	Lion	GR				46_4_NLS_Watson29_Lbox 46_5_NLS_Watson29_wm 46_6_NLS_Watson29_wm 46_7_NLS_Watson29_cm 46_8_NLS_Watson29_cm	46_1_NLS_Watson29 46_2_NLS_Watson29 46_3_NLS_Watson29	4 pages of Burns' writing, songs etc Pencil notes in contents covering Watson 28, 29: 'sent to William Tytler of Woodhouselea August 1790' [H2?] 'Shared probably 90 with no.17' [i.e. probably sent with letter to Tytler collected in Watson p.17]	cf. 33, 45: Probably the verses sent to Tytler entry 33 accompanying entry 45.
47	National Library of Scotland	6 pages from a note book, Watson p.30	23-24 Nov 1790	1790	MS 586	Excise	Laid	Foilio page from note book, rel to excise. Burns' hand, ink on paper.	240W 176H	9	1"	vertical						47_4_NLS_Watson30_Lbox 47_5_NLS_Watson30_Lbox	47_1_NLS_Watson30 47_2_NLS_Watson30 47_3_NLS_Watson30	6 pages from a note book (Burns Autograph)	See entry 48 for next 2 of the pages
48	National Library of Scotland	1 sheet from excise notebook, Watson p. 30(2)*	27 Feb- 17 Mar 1790	1790	MS 586	Excise	Laid	I leaf from notebook in Burns' hand, ink on paper	176H 120W	4	1"	Vertical						48_3_NLS_Watson30(2)_Lbox	48_1_NLS_Watson30(2) 48_2_NLS_Watson30(2)	1 Sheet from an excise notebook (Burns Autograph)	*Ms pagination corrected from 31 to 30(2). Final 2 pages referred to in entry 47.
49	National Library of Scotland	Excise voucher, Watson p.31	[March] 1794	1794	MS 586	Excise	Laid	Burns autograph on lined excise paper.	414H 324W	16"	1"	Horizontal	Britannia	R. Reid & Co.				49_4_NLS_Watson31_Lbox 49_5_NLS_Watson31_Lbox 49_6_NLS_Watson31_wm 49_7_NLS_Watson31_cm 49_8_NLS_Watson31_cm	49_1_NLS_Watson31 49_2_NLS_Watson31 49_3_NLS_Watson31	1 Excise voucher signed by Burns	Same excise paper used in 64. Lined government ledger paper.
50	National Library of Scotland	Excise Voucher, Watson Collection p.32	[April] 1795	1795	MS 586	Excise	Laid	Large printed folded sheet of excise paper with Burns' autograph, ink on paper. Auction catalogue description stuck to inside of sheet.	540W 375H	14	1"	Horizontal		J. Whatman	Maidstone, Kent	England		50_8_NLS_Watson32_Lbox 50_9_NLS_Watson32_wm 50_10_NLS_Watson32_wm	50_1_NLS_Watson32 50_2_NLS_Watson32 50_3_NLS_Watson32 50_4_NLS_Watson32 50_5_NLS_Watson32 50_6_NLS_Watson32 50_7_NLS_Watson32	1 Excise voucher signed by Burns H2: "Robert Burns the Poet's signature" Auction slip: "Burns, Robert, the celebrated poet, a Dumfries collection excise sheet, signed by him, RARE and INTERESTING £2 12s 6d"	Countermark of James Whatman, Turkey mill, Kent, listed in Churchill 1935, p.54 as British paper maker 1760-1850	Churchill 1935, p.54; Shorter 1971, 56
51	National Library of Scotland	Letter [to Clarinda] of (1787), 3219, f.3	[6 Dec 1787]	1787	MS 3219	Letter	Laid	Fragment of letter to Clarinda. Ink on paper. MS has been coated for purposes of preservation and repaired. Miss Nimmo's name cut out, possibly to protect anonymity, and another hand has added it back in pencil at a later stage.	132H 190W	5	1"	Horizontal	Unidentified					51_3_NLS_ToClarindaDec87_wm	51_1_NLS_ToClarindaDec87 51_2_NLS_ToClarindaDec87_Lbox	MS notes "First letter to Clarinda" and includes transcript of rest of letter provided by Grrenock library. 'The first of the two letters printed here is the earliest of the long series that Burns and Mrs. M'Lehose exchanged during the years 1787-1793. It was printed in part in the unauthorised edition (1802) of the Letters addressed to Clarinda, and more fully in the authorised edition of the Correspondence between Burns and Clarinda (1843). / Soon after the publication of the latter volume sixty-five of the original letters were sold by auction at Edinburgh. The first of the series subsequently came into the posession of the late Allan Park Paton, for some years Librarian' of Greenock Library (in Watt Monument), who foolishly cut the document in two. One portion, containing the beginning and the end of the letter, he presented to Greenock Library, where it still is; this was printed and also reproduced in facsimile in the 1936 issue of the Burns Chronicle. The other portion he retained, inserting it into a folio volume of autograph letters which came into the market early last year (1944). An initialed note in his hand on this second portion records the dividing of the manuscript. / At a date before 1843 the signature to the letter was cut out, causing the loss (from the first paragraph) of several words which "Clarinda's" grandson, editor of the Correspondence (1843), conjectured were "I shall not return." In the second paragraph of the letter "Miss Nimmo" also was cut out, though not quite cleanly. ' J.C. Ewing, Burns Chronicle (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, 1945), p.3.	Letter written to McLehose after being introduced by Miss Nimmo 4 Dec 1787. See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Stewart, 1802, who assigned first place to the letter of [8 Dec] and second place to this letter. Here collated with that part of the original MS. which is in the National pg 182Library of Scotland, beginning 'but must ever regret' and ending 'several poetic trifles'. The remainder of the text was collated with a facsimile published in the Burns Chronicle, 1936, of the original MS. in the Greenock Library. Some time before 1843 the signature was cut out, also removing the bracketed words 'I shall not return', which were conjecturally added in M'Lehose, 1843. The words 'Miss Nimmo' were also cut out with the loss of the first two letters from the word 'off-hand'."	Letters 158 (1); "See Robert Burns Annual and Chronicle" [note accompanying ms]; J.C. Ewing, Burns Chronicle 1945, pp.3-4 <http://www.rbwf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1945.pdf> [accessed 9 Aug 2017]; cf. entry 52, also examined in same article. See Burns Chronicle 1936 for facs of the rest of the letter held in Greenock Library.
52	National Library of Scotland	Letter of [to Patrick Miller?] (1788), 3220	[16 March 1788]	1788	MS 3220	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter to Patrick Miller from St James' Square. Ink on Paper, 2 sides. H2 [Miller] records information about letter on reverse. Wove paper with chain lines.	228H 180W	20	11mm?	vertical							51_1_NLS_ToPatrickMiller88 51_2_NLS_ToPatrickMiller88 51_3_NLS_ToPatrickMiller88_Lbox 51_4_NLS_ToPatrickMiller88_Lbox	H2 [Miller]: Robert Burns / 6 o'clock 16 March 1788 / anent tack of Ellisland. MS "comes from the collection of letters and other papers of the Russells of Ashiestiel, which was presented (1943) to the National Library of Scotland by General Sir Aylmer Haldane. G.C.Y.G., K.C.B., D.S.0." J.C. Ewing, Burns Chronicle (1946), p.3. Burns Chronicle 1956, p.62 notes text of letter 'has already been published in the Kilmarnock Standard'	Unusual paper, 9" x 7". Wove paper but with chain lines which are less than 1/2" apart. Atypical letter-locking. Date from note in margins, cf Ferguson Roy. They follow J.C. Ewing in noting that the docketing of letter is in Miller's hand.	Letters 224 A (5): "Burns Chronicle, 1945, and again in 1956 with a facsimile. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The letter is docketed, probably by Miller, 'Robert Burns Edinbr 16 Mch anent Tack of Ellisland—'." J.C. Ewing, Burns Chronicle 1945, pp.3-4 <http://www.rbwf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1945.pdf> [accessed 9 Aug 2017], cf. entry 51. See Burns Chronicle 1956, pp.62-65 for transcription and facsimile of letter.
53	National Library of Scotland	Letter of [to Captain Hamilton] (1794), 3813, f.22	[July 1794]	[1794]	MS 3813	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter on small folded sheet, ink on paper. Addressed to Captn Hamilton on rear. Coated for preservation? H2 suggests year in pencil.	240W 190H	9	1"	Vertical	Post					53_5_NLS_ToCapnHamilton94_wm 53_6_NLS_ToCapnHamilton94_wm	53_1_NLS_ToCapnHamilton94 53_2_NLS_ToCapnHamilton94 53_3_NLS_ToCapnHamilton94 53_4_NLS_ToCapnHamilton94_Lbox	letter of (1794), 3813, f. 22	Partial watermark showing coronet and top of chain from post horn. Date	Letters 633 (2)
54	National Library of Scotland	Fragment of letter of [to Alexander Dalziel?] (1794)	[1789 or 1794]	[1789 or 1794]	MS 5308	Letter Fragment	Laid	Small autograph fragment, ink on paper, split into two halves and reunited on backing paper. Burns writing on rear, the bottom half of which has been scored out by another hand.	186W 68H										54_1_NLS_Fragment1794 54_2_NLS_Fragment1794_Lbox	"fragments of letters of and to (1794, n.d.), and fragments of MS. Of Lockhart's Life of Burns (n.d.), 5308, nos.1144a-1146" Catalogue of MSS. Vol. IV (HMSO, 1982)	See XXXV. 'MIERS' SHADE OF BURNS. By JOHN MUIR' in John Ross (ed.), Burnsiana: a collection of literary odds and ends relating to Robert Burns for a note on this fragment. Fergusson Roy edn of corr. suggests Dalziel as recipient, and records date of 1789, while NLS dates fragment to 1794.	Letters 304 (1); XXXV: 'MIERS' SHADE OF BURNS. By JOHN MUIR' in John Ross (ed.), Burnsiana: a collection of literary odds and ends relating to Robert Burns.
55	National Library of Scotland	Letter of [to Dr Fyffe] and verse ['Now, God in heaven bless Reekie's town'] (1787)	[5 May 1787]	[1787]	MS 8486	Letter Verse	Laid	Autograph letter. Ink on paper. Only 1st side of folded sheet has been written on. Damage repaired with gauze. Addressed to "Mr Fyffe Surgeon Colege" on rear. "Saturday morn: six o'clock". Contains 4 line verse to Auld Reekie. Paper torn at bottom.	205H 330W	8	1"	Horizontal	Britannia					55_4_NLS_ToDrFyffe87_wm 55_5_NLS_ToDrFyffe87_wm	55_1_NLS_ToDrFyffe87 55_2_NLS_ToDrFyffe87 55_3_NLS_ToDrFyffe87_Lbox	"letter and portrait of (?1787, n.d.), 8486" Catalogue of MSS. Vol. VII (HMSO, 1989) "Poet Burns" in H2 on reverse above address.	See Burns Encyclopedia for description of letter. Http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/FyffeDrM.372.shtml. Date from Roy Fergusson edn, who record "Wallace, 1896. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland."	Letters 105; Burns Encyclopedia, s.v. 'Fyffe, Dr. M".
56	National Library of Scotland	Fragment of excise book of (late 18th cent.), 10324, no. 73	[18 Dec 1792]	[1792]	MS 10324	Excise Fragment	Laid	Fragment from excise book. Burns' hand, ink on paper. Some repair to folds.	225W 90H		1"	Vertical							56_1_NLS_ExciseFragment 56_2_NLS_ExciseFragment 56_3_NLS_ExciseFragment 56_4_NLS_ExciseFragment_Lbox	"fragment of excise book of (late 18th cent.), 10324, no. 73" Catalogue of MSS. Vol. VIII (HMSO, 1992) "A Leaf from the Excise Book of Robert Burns the Poet. Sent to me from Dumfries. W.J. Lloyd"	Dated from text of ms
57	National Library of Scotland	Fragments of letter to Moore, Cowie collection	[2 August 1787]	[1787]	MS 15952	Letter Fragment	Laid	[Draft of] autobiographical letter to Dr John Moore. Ink on Paper. Damaged and in extremely poor condition with only the left half of most pages surviving. Gauze repair to all 12 pages, which are split into separate leaves in bound volume.			1"	Various	Post and GR					57_6_NLS_ToMooreFragments_wm	57_1_NLS_ToMooreFragments 57_2_NLS_ToMooreFragments_Lbox 57_3_NLS_ToMooreFragments_Lbox 57_4_NLS_ToMooreFragments_Lbox	"15952. Fragments of Burns's autobiographical letter to Dr John Moore, 1787" Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI [COWIE COLLECTION] "Original [***] of his letter to Dr Moore in wh. He gives an acc.t. of his life -- This has some [rest of note damaged]	From Fergusson Roy edn: "Currie, 1800, probably from Burns's original draft; completed by Douglas, 1877, from the copy actually sent to Dr. Moore, which is in the British Library. Here collated with that MS. The surviving fragments of the poet's original draft are now in the National Library of Scotland. There is a transcript in another hand in the Glenriddell MS. of Poems. Burns made some corrections and appended the following note: Know all whom it may concern, that I, the Author, am not answerable for the false spelling & injudicious punctuation in the foregoing transcript of my letter to Dr Moore.—I have something generous in my temper that cannot bear to see or hear the Absent wronged, & I am very much hurt to observe that in several instances the transcriber has injured & [mang (deleted)] mangled the proper name & principal title of a Personage of the very first distinction in all that is valuable among men, Antiquity, abilities & power; (Virtue, every body knows is an obsolete business) I mean, the Devil.—Considering that the Transcriber was one of the Clergy, an order that owe the very bread they eat to the said Personage's exertions, the affair was absolutely unpardonable.—R.B.—"	Letters 125 (4)
58	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Richard Brown 1788, Cowie collection.	20 March 1788	1788	MS 15953	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper. Letter on f.1 and f.2 of folded sheet, address on rear. Repair to part where wax would have sealed envelope.	230H 380W	10	c.1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					58_6_NLS_ToRichardBrown88_wm	58_1_NLS_ToRichardBrown88 58_2_NLS_ToRichardBrown88 58_3_NLS_ToRichardBrown88 58_4_NLS_ToRichardBrown88_Lbox 58_5_NLS_ToRichardBrown88_Lbox	"Letters, drawings and engravings relating to Burns...It includes a letter of Burns to Richard Brown... and fragments of a vocabulary in his hand." G. Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI [COWIE COLLECTION]	See Glasgow Herald, Saturday 29 Nov 1913 for description of manuscripts sold (included in Cowie volume). See also Ferg Roy edn: "Walker, 1811. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. In answer to a letter of 16 Mar."	Letters 228 (5); Glasgow Herald, Sat 29 Nov, 1913
59	National Library of Scotland	Fragments of a vocabulary, Cowie Collection	[1786?]	[1786?]	MS 15953	Fragment	Laid	Two small fragments in Burns' hand. Ink on Paper. H2, ink: His son Robert attests "My Father's handwriting /Feb 23 / 1834 Robt. Burns"	A: 40H 140W; B: 120H	1 and 5	1"	Horizontal	Pro Patria			Holland		59_5_NLS_VocabFragments_wm 59_6_NLS_VocabFragments_wm	59_1_NLS_VocabFragments 59_2_NLS_VocabFragments 59_3_NLS_VocabFragments_Lbox 59_4_NLS_VocabFragments_Lbox	'two portions of the manuscript glossary that the poet prepared for his own "Poems" - a glossary that appears to have been cut into pieces to satisfy the requests of the autograph collector'	See Glasgow Herald, Saturday 29 Nov 1913 for this description of manuscripts sold (copy included in Cowie volume). Partial Pro Patria watermark - stick and hat discernible	Glasgow Herald, Saturday 29 Nov, 1913
60	National Library of Scotland	'Bony Dundee', Cowie Collection, MS 15957, f.13	[? Mar 1787]	[1787]	MS 15957	Verse	Laid	Verse. Holograph. Ink on Paper. "To Mr Cleghorn" written on rear.	320H 190W	7	1"	Vertical		GR				60_4_NLS_BonyDundee_wm	60_1_NLS_BonyDundee 60_2_NLS_BonyDundee 60_3_NLS_BonyDundee_Lbox	"The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI	Royal Cipher countermark Date suggested in Kinsley, Poems, vol.I, who records: "Bonie Dundee. Text from SMM, 1787 (99; unsigned), collated with the Cowie MS (note to Cleghorn,? March 1787). Holograph note in Watson MSS 1790 (1143): Stanza of an old Song, tune bonie Dundee Ye're like to the timmer o' yon rotten wood, Ye're like to the bark o' yon rotten tree; Ye slip frae me like a knotless thread, An' ye'll crack your credit wi' mae than me. Erratum in the set of Bonie Dundee that I wrote before—For happer-meal, read, hauver-meal, i.e. meal composed of two different kinds of grain. The first stanza of Bonie Dundee is traditional, and was jotted down by Burns on the back of a letter from the Earl of Buchan dated 1 February 1787 (Scott Douglas, ii. 48; cf. Letter 82). […] "	K157; The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9.
61	National Library of Scotland	'The Five Carlins', Cowie Coll. MS 15958, f.11	[Dec 1789]	[1789]	MS 15958	Verse	Laid	Autograph note and verse on large folio sheet. Ink on paper. Writing on all sides, including address to Mr David Blair on rear. Folded to fit volume, making measurement difficult.	390W 325H?	16?	1"	Vertical	Britannia	Band	Somerset	England		61_4_NLS_5Carlins_wm 61_5_NLS_5Carlins_cm	61_1_NLS_5Carlins 61_2_NLS_5Carlins_Lbox 61_3_NLS_5Carlins_Lbox	"The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI	Band & Son 1783 listed as British papermakers in Churchill 1935, p.48. Date from Kinsley, Poems, vol.I: "The Five Carlins. Text from the Afton Lodge MS (ff. 20r-22u), collated with MSS Lochryan (Loch; letter to Mrs. Dunlop, 2 October 1789), Cowie (Utter to David Blair, December 1789) and Fintry (letter to Graham, 9 December 1789), B.M. MS Egerton 1656 (ff. 28-29; Eg), the Glenriddell MS (p. 89; Glen), Stewart, 1802, and Lockhart. Sequence in Loch, Eg: ll. 1-56, 81-88, 57-64, 73-80, 65-72 and 89-92. Sub-title in Afton Lodge MS only"	K269; The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9; Shorter 1971, 60; Churchill 1935, p.48.
62	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Mr McMurdo 1790, Cowie Collection MS 15958 f.18	2 August 1790	1790	MS 15958	Letter	Laid	Covering letter for accompanying Elegy for Matthew Henderson (f.19 - see next entry). Burns autograph. Ink on paper, one side. Addressed to Mr McMurdo on rear. Sent from Ellisland. H2 in pencil under date.	185H 120W			Vertical							62_1_NLS_ToMcMurdo90 62_2_NLS_ToMcMurdo90 62_3_NLS_ToMcMurdo90_Lbox	"The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI	cf. Entry 63 (MS 15958, f.19) and Kinsley, Poems, I:239. See Ferg Roy edn: "With Elegy on the Death of Captn Matthew Henderson. See Poems, 239. [...] Cunningham, 1834. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland."	Letters 411 A. (3); K239; Cunningham 1834; The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9
63	National Library of Scotland	Elegy on the Death of Captn Matthew Henderson, Cowie Collection MS 15958 f.19	[2 August 1790]	[1790]	MS 15958	Verse	Laid	Verse in Burns's hand. Ink on Paper. Large folded sheet. Ms folded to fit volume, making accurate measurement difficult.	390W 325H	16?	1"	Vertical	Britannia	Band	Somerset	England		63_4_NLS_ElegyHenderson_wm 63_5_NLS_ElegyHenderson_cm	63_1_NLS_ElegyHenderson 63_2_NLS_ElegyHenderson_Lbox 63_3_NLS_ElegyHenderson_Lbox	"The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI	cf 28, 61. See Also entry 62 (MS 15958 f.18) for accompanying letter. Cf. Kinsley, Poems, vol.1 (239): "Elegy on Cap? M— H—. Text from the Edinburgh edition, 1793, collated with the Second Commonplace Book (2CPB ), the Bixby MS, the Lochryan MS (Loch; letter to Mrs. Dunlop, 30 July 1790), the Fintry MS (4 September 1790), the Cowie and Afton Lodge MSS, the Edinburgh Magazine, August 1790, and the edition of 1794. See Commentary. The Magazine follows Loch in lines 9–12, 22–24, 39–41, 45, 48, 49–60, 56, 66 . Title in Fintry Elegy on the death of the late Captn. Matthew Henderson, Edinr. Epigraph om. Bixby; added at the end of the poem in Fintry; replaced in Loch and Cowie by 'Should the Poor be flattered?' Shakespear; corrected in 2CPB from But now his radiant course is run, For Matthew was a bright man; His soul was like the glorious Sun, A matchless"	K239; Letters 411 A. (3); Shorter 1971, 60; Churchill 1935, p.48
64	National Library of Scotland	Part of The Heron Ballads : The Election, Cowie Collection 15959 f.18	[1795]	[1795]	MS 15959	Verse	Laid	Partial verses from the Heron Ballad in Burns' hand. Ink on excise paper. Paper has excise lines on rear showing Burns using excise paper for verse. H2 in ink on rear.	325H 203W	8	1"	Vertical		R. Reid & Co.				64_4_NLS_HeronBallad_wm	64_1_NLS_HeronBallad 64_2_NLS_HeronBallad 64_3_NLS_HeronBallad_Lbox	H2: "Another sketch of this ballad on the Galloway Election containing another verse than the printed one on Lord Selkirk's family". "The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI	cf. 49 for same excise paper. See Kinsley, Poems, vol.II (492): "The Heron Ballads. II. The Election. Text from the 1795 broadside (95) collated with the Cowie MS (early fragment; sequence ll. 25-28, 17-20, 21-24, 45-48 and a quatrain later rejected, 37-40, 29-32), the Huntington Library MS (HL; ll. 1-28 only), and Cunningham, 1834, lll. 264-7 (Curi). Title in HL A Ballad—"	K492; The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9
65	National Library of Scotland	It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King, Cowie Collection, MS 15960 f.5	[1796]	[1796]	MS 15960	Letter Fragment Verse	Laid	Holograph poem, ink on paper.	225H 140W	5	1"	Vertical							65_1_NLS_OurRighfuKing 65_2_NLS_OurRighfuKing_Lbox	"The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI	Dates to before publication of 1796 SMM. 1794? See Kinsley, Poems, vol.II (589):"It was a' for our rightfu' king. Text from the Cowie MS (facsimile in Scott Douglas, iii. 192), collated with SMM, 1796 (497; unsigned)"	K589; The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9, iii.192
66	National Library of Scotland	Verse Epistle [To William Stewart] 'In honest Bacon's ingle neuk', Cowie Collection MS 15967 f.9	[early 1789]*	[1789]	MS 15967	Letter Verse Epistle	Laid	Verse epistle [to Wm. Stewart] Postscript to recipient shows verse was enclosed with a letter: "P.S. In a week I shall be ready with two horses to drive lime, but I hope to see you on Wednesday. / R.B."	304H 165W	7?	1"	Vertical	Britannia					66_3_NLS_InHonestBacon_wm	66_1_NLS_InHonestBacon 66_2_NLS_InHonestBacon 66_3_NLS_InHonestBacon_Lbox	"The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI	*See Burns Encyc. for suggested date of 1793 <http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/BaconMrd1825.71.shtml> [accessed 15 Aug 2017]. Kinsley suggests an earlier date of 1789: "To William Stewart. Text from the Cowie MS [...] 255. Written in Brownhill inn, probably in the early months of 1789 (Letter 306). William Stewart was the son of a publican at Closeburn, and in Burns's Dumfriesshire years factor at Closeburn Castle, which stands off the Dumfries-Sanquhar road about six miles north of Ellisland. His brother-in-law, Bacon, kept the inn at Brownhill, about a mile nearer Ellisland. Burns and Stewart shared a taste for ribald verse (Letter 253). Cf. 538 and 579, notes." cf. Fergusson Roy, who likewise suggest early 1789: "Wallace, 1896; collected from Notes and Queries, 30 July 1881. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland."	K255; Burns Encyclopedia, s.v. "Bacon, Mr (d. 1825)"; Wallace, 1896; Notes and Queries, 30 July 1881
67	National Library of Scotland	To [Robert Aiken] with Verse 'To Mrs C---' Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More's, Cowie Collection MS 15967 f.13	3 April 1786	1786	MS 15967	Verse	Laid	Autograph verse, signed Robert Burness, dated Mossgiel 3 April 1786. Ink on Paper. Addressed 'Dr Sir' [Aiken]. Folded to fit inteleaved volume.	238H 187W	10	1"	Horizontal							67_1_NLS_LetterApr1786 67_2_NLS_LetterApr1786 67_3_NLS_LetterApr1786_Lbox	H2: "To R. Aiken. Wallace Vol 1 P 317" "The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI.	See Fergusson Roy, vol. I, Letter 24 (1): "[Cunningham, 1834. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland.] [...] James Kinsley: Poems, III, 1173, suggests three people who might be Mrs. C—: Mrs. Campbell of Fairfield, wife of William Campbell, Provost of Ayr 1783–4; Mrs. Cuninghame of Lainshaw; or Mrs. Maxwell Campbell of Skerrington." cf. Kinsley, Poems, vol.I (96): "To Mrs. C—. Text from the Cowie MS, collated with Cunningham, 1834 (.vii. 336; letter to Aiken, 3 April 1786) […] 91. Included in a note to Robert Aiken, 3 April 1786 (Letter 24), expressing pleasure at 'the second flattering instance of Mrs C——'s notice and approbation … I have inscribed the following stanzas on the blank leaf of Miss More's works.' Mrs. C——has not been identified. Possibilities are Mrs. Campbell of Fairfield, a subscriber to the Edinburgh edition (1787) and wife of William Campbell, advocate and provost of Ayr 1783–4—and so in Aiken's circle of acquaintance; Mrs. Cuninghame of Lainshaw, Stewarton, who subscribed for two copies of the 1787 edition; and Mrs. Maxwell Campbell of Skerrington (see 428, introductory note). On the stanza see 51, introductory note."	Letters 24 (1); K96; Wallace I:317; The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9.
68	National Library of Scotland	[Facs?] To Mrs W. Riddell/"The trout in yonder", Cowie Collection, ff.14-15	[June or July 1795]	[1795]	MS 15967	Letter Verse	Wove	Autograph letter addressed to Mrs W. Riddell on rear. Ink on paper. Two separate leaves with [musical] directions to turn over 'volti subito' [turn over quickly].	180H 155W	n/a	n/a	n/a		J. B[and?]				68_6_NLS_ToMrsRiddell_wm 68_7_NLS_ToMrsRiddell_wm-enhanced	68_1_NLS_ToMrsRiddell 68_2_NLS_ToMrsRiddell 68_3_NLS_ToMrsRiddell 68_4_NLS_ToMrsRiddell_Lbox 68_5_NLS_ToMrsRiddell_Lbox	"The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W Scott Douglas, Edin 1877-9. Originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, MSS., engravings…relating to Burns and his work." Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XI	Highly unusual example of wove paper. No margins and the bottom of letters in last line of poem are cut off (cf. facsimile reprinted in Le Galliene 1896, which includes bottom of letters) suggesting that either ms has been cut or that it is a copy. Ms date from Kinsley K502 "Scotch Song" See also Ferguson Roy eds, who likewise suggest June or July composition, in Vol.II of Letters: "[Currie, 1800, in combination with another note written several months earlier. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. There is a facsimile of the letter in R. Le Gallienne, In Memory of Robert Burns (London, 1896); another facsimile was published as a single sheet in 1867. Docketed '23' by Maria Riddell.]"	K502; Letters 674 (21); Currie 1800; Facsimile repr. in R. Le Gallienne, In Memory of Robert Burns (London, 1896).
69	National Library of Scotland	[Facsimile of] To James Clarke 1796, MS 16747 ff.21-22	[26 June 1796]	[1796]	MS 16747	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, probably the facsimile referred to by Fergusson Roy eds. Large folded sheet without any signs of letter locking. Addressed to Mr. Clarke Schoolmaster Forfar. Clean sheet.	380W 237H	9	1"	Horizontal	Lily					69_5_NLS_ToJamesClarke96_wm 69_7_NLS_ToJamesClarke96_wm	69_1_NLS_ToJamesClarke96 69_2_NLS_ToJamesClarke96 69_3_NLS_ToJamesClarke96 69_4_NLS_ToJamesClarke96_Lbox 69_6_NLS_ToJamesClarke96_Lbox	"document written by (n.d.), 16747, ff.21-3 [part of an autograph collection of Lady Charlotte Fletcher 19th C] " Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XII	Clean, unfolded exact copy of RBBM MS 3.6348 <http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/object_detail/3.6348> [accessed 15 Aug 2017] without the letter locking or the note by H2 on the RBBM ms: "He died the 21 July". On laid paper but black ink instead of brown. See Fergusson Roy, Letters, vol.II 698 (3): "[Chambers, 1839. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Two facsimiles of the letter exist, one of them watermarked 1844.]"	RBBM MS 3.6348 ; Letters 698 (3); Chambers 1839; Burns Encyclopedia, s.v. "Clarke, James (1761? — 1825)"
70	National Library of Scotland	Excise sheet, MS 16747 f.23			MS 16747	Excise	Laid	Burns holograph excise paper.	240W 90H	9?	1"	Vertical							70_1_NLS_Excise 70_2_NLS_Excise 70_3_NLS_Excise_Lbox	"Specimen of Handwriting of Burns: attested by his friend Mr Syme of Dumfries" "document written by (n.d.), 16747, ff.21-3 [part of an autograph collection of Lady Charlotte Fletcher 19th C] " Catalogue of MSS. Vol. XII
71	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Josiah Walker, Cowie collection	29 September 1787	1787	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on folded sheet of paper, addressed to Josiah Walker on rear.	378W 228H	9	1"	Vertical	Post and GR					71_5_NLS_ToJWalker1787_wm 71_6_NLS_ToJWalker1787_wm	71_1_NLS_ToJWalker1787 71_2_NLS_ToJWalker1787 71_3_NLS_ToJWalker1787 71_4_NLS_ToJWalker1787_Lbox		cf. 58 - possibly same paper used March 1788. Published in DeLancey Ferguson, Letters I, p.127.	Letters 140 (2)
72	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Frances Howden, Cowie Collection	[1787]	[1787]	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Folded sheet with autograph letter [n.d.], ink on paper, addressed to Frances Howden, Jeweller, Parliament Square on rear.	226W 185H	10	[7/8"	Vertical	[Lily]			England		72_6_NLS_ToFHowden_wm	72_1_NLS_ToFHowden 72_2_NLS_ToFHowden 72_3_NLS_ToFHowden 72_4_NLS_ToFHowden_Lbox 72_5_NLS_ToFHowden_Lbox		Partial Watermark shows bottom right of what looks like Fleur de Lis with beginning of Whatman's initials underneath. Collated with example from Shorter 1957, p.377. Burns stayed in 2 St James Square, with Wm Cruikshank. Date taken from sequence of letters in Fergusson Roy, vol 1, who also record "Chambers, 1851. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The MS. is slightly damaged, and the words in brackets are conjectural."	Letters 167; Shorter 1957, p.337.
73	National Library of Scotland	To Clarinda	[19 January 1788]	[1788]	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter to Clarinda signed Sylvander. Ink on paper. Faded on front and rear. Large folded sheet, folded again twice vertically. No envelope or address. Ms preserved and repaired on folds.	396W 251H	10	1"	Horizontal		[S. Lay]	Kent	England		73_6_NLS_ToClarindaSatMorn_wm 73_7_NLS_ToClarindaSatMorn_wm	73_1_NLS_ToClarindaSatMorn 73_2_NLS_ToClarindaSatMorn 73_3_NLS_ToClarindaSatMorn 73_4_NLS_ToClarindaSatMorn_Lbox 73_5_NLS_ToClarindaSatMorn_Lbox	Publ. in DeLancey Ferguson Letters I, p.166	Partial countermark on fold. Shorter 1957, pp.322-24 for examples of Lay's countermark; see also. p.184 for details on papermaker; see Date from Fergusson Roy edn, who note "Stewart, 1802. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland."	Letters 181 (6); Shorter 1957, pp.184, 322-24.
74	National Library of Scotland	Letter To Clarinda, Tues Morning, Cowie Collection	[29 January 1788]	[1788]	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter to McLehose, ink on paper. Mark from red wax on back. Irregular fold. Ms repaired and preserved.	264W 229H	9	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					74_6_NLS_ToClarindaTueMorn_wm 73_7_NLS_ToClarindaSatMorn_wm_enhanced	74_1_NLS_ToClarindaTueMorn 74_2_NLS_ToClarindaTueMorn 74_3_NLS_ToClarindaTueMorn 74_4_NLS_ToClarindaTueMorn_Lbox 74_5_NLS_ToClarindaTueMorn_Lbox	Publ. in Delancey Ferguson, I, p.176	Date from Fergusson Roy edn.	Letters 190 (23)
75	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Clarinda, Thurs morning, Cowie Collection	[7 February 1788]	[1788]	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Holgraph letter, ink on paper, to McLehose signed Sylvander on rear. Folded sheet. Major part of letter missing and repair to ms on 3rd page.	374W 225H	9	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					75_5_NLS_ToClarindaThurMorn_wm	75_1_NLS_ToClarindaThurMorn 75_2_NLS_ToClarindaThurMorn 75_3_NLS_ToClarindaThurMorn 75_4_NLS_ToClarindaThurMorn_Lbox	Publ DeLancey Ferguson Letter i, p.180.	Likely the same paper as 74. Date from Fergusson Roy edn. who consult "M'Lehose, 1843. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland."	Letters 195 (26)
76	National Library of Scotland	Letter to James Smith 1788, Cowie Collection	26 June 1788	1788	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper. Folded sheet written on first side only, addressed to James Smith at Avon Printfield near Linlithgow.	370W 204H	8	1"	Horizontal							76_1_NLS_ToJSmith1788 76_2_NLS_ToJSmith1788 76_3_NLS_ToJSmith1788 76_4_NLS_ToJSmith1788_Lbox 76_5_NLS_ToJSmith1788_Lbox	H2: "R Burns to James Maucline 26 July 1788". Publ in DeLancey Ferguson Letters i, p.230	See Fergusson Roy edn: "D. M'Naught: The Truth about Burns (Glasgow, 1921); collected by Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland."	Letters 251 (7)
77	National Library of Scotland	To Mr Graham of Fintry Requesting a Favour, Cowie collection 20	[1788-89]	[1788-89]	MS 15951	Verse Epistle	Laid	Large sheet in two parts featuring holograph verse epistle to Mr Graham of Fintry, ink on paper, with an additional inscription and dedication on rear to a Dr McCulloch by J[ames G[lencairn] Burns 21st Febr 1833. Preservation 'film' on face of each.	350H 183W	7	1"	Vertical	Georgian Arms	JB				77_5_NLS_ToMrGraham_wm 77_6_NLS_ToMrGraham_cm 77_7_NLS_ToMrGraham_wm_enhanced	77_1_NLS_ToMrGraham 77_2_NLS_ToMrGraham 77_3_NLS_ToMrGraham_Lbox 77_4_NLS_ToMrGraham_Lbox	Publ in Kinsley Poems i, p.425.	Photos of face of sheet 1 and rear of sheet 2. Letter of provenance accompanies poem. Watermark barely discernible but one can make out the crest with the top right Fleur de Lis and the bottom left Harp. Date suggested by Kinsley: "To Rob? Graham of Fintry. Text from the Second Commonplace Book (2CPB; pp. 17–20), collated with Letter 260 (Dunlop 1; draft of ll. 49–65 in letter to Mrs. Dunlop, 2 August 1788), the Adam MS (Adam 1, Sketch), the Watson MS (1123), letter to Mrs. Dunlop, 5 September 1788 (Dunlop 2; Dewar's transcript), MS Adam 2 (probably one of the numerous copies sent out in January 1789), the Don MS (sent to Lady Don?January 1789), the Huntington Library MS (HL; Bishop Geddes's copy of 87, sent 3 February 1789), the Cowie MS, the transcript in the Glenriddell MS (Glen; pp. 118–23), and Currie (ii. 168–71; from the copy for Graham?). Title in MSS Watson, Adam 2, Don Cowie and Glen To R— G— Esq. requesting a favor: in HL To Robert Graham of Fintry Esquire—accompanying a request—"	K230
78	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Dr Moore March 1789, Cowie Collection 23	23 March 1789	1789	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, folio sheet, with address on rear to Dr [John] Moore, London. Red wax seal intact. H2 on rear provides details on ode to Mrs Oswald originally enclosed with the letter.	370W 225H	10	1"?	Horizontal		J. Buttanshaw	Hamptons Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		78_6_NLS_ToDrMoore1789_cm	78_1_NLS_ToDrMoore1789 78_2_NLS_ToDrMoore1789 78_3_NLS_ToDrMoore1789 78_4_NLS_ToDrMoore1789_Lbox 78_5_NLS_ToDrMoore1789_Lbox 78_7_NLS_ToDrMoore1789_seal	H2: "To Dr Moore [personal ***??????] of the late Mrs Oswlad the ode printed in his works" Publ. De Lancey Ferguson Letters i, p.314.	Countermark across fold. Cf. 21, 79. cf. Fergusson Roy edn, which consults "Currie, 1800; completed in Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland."	Letters 322 (6); Shorter 1971, 60, 102; Churchill 1935, p.49.
79	National Library of Scotland	To Capt Riddel, Cowie Collection 26	[1789]	[1789]	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, folio sheet, addressed to Capt Riddel, Carse on rear. Regarding Glenriddel ms. 3rd page has note in large ink hand re. "Ames's typogra : antiq:/Ames British Librararian/ Ames on Printing" H2 Currie.	224W 187H	10	7/8"	Vertical		J. Buttanshaw	Hamptons Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		79_5_NLS_ToCptRiddel_cm 79_6_NLS_ToCptRiddel_cm	79_1_NLS_ToCptRiddel 79_2_NLS_ToCptRiddel 79_3_NLS_ToCptRiddel 79_4_NLS_ToCptRiddel_Lbox	publ. in DeLancey Ferguson Letters i, p.334.	"1780 J Buttanshaw" in list of British Paper Mills, Churchill 1935, p.49. cf. 78, 21. Date in Fergusson Roy ed. I, who consult "Cromek, 1808; completed by the addition of the postscript in Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland."	Letters 340 (2); Churchill 1935, p.49; Shorter 1971, 60, 102
80	National Library of Scotland	Letter to William Dunbar, Cowie Collection	14 Jan 1790	1790	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Folded sheet with autograph letter, ink on paper, addressed to William Dunbar Writer to the Signet St David's St Edin on rear. Ms has been preserved/repaired inside.	374W 225H	10	15/16"	Horizontal	Post and GR					80_6_NLS_ToWmDunbar1790_wm 80_7_NLS_ToWmDunbar1790_wm	80_1_NLS_ToWmDunbar1790 80_2_NLS_ToWmDunbar1790 80_3_NLS_ToWmDunbar1790 80_4_NLS_ToWmDunbar1790_Lbox 80_5_NLS_ToWmDunbar1790_Lbox	Publ in DeLancey Ferguson, Letters ii, p.1	See Fergusson Roy edn.:"[Hogg & Motherwell, 1834. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. Dunbar answered on 4 Feb.]"	Letters 382 (6)
81	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Dr Anderson, Cowie Collection 29	1 Nov 1790	1790	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, folded sheet, addressed on rear to Dr Anderson. Pencil line on back along with info on ms in H2	376W 242H	9	1 1/8&quo	Horizontal	Lily and GR					81_5_NLS_ToDrAnderson1790_wm 81_6_NLS_ToDrAnderson1790_wm	81_1_NLS_ToDrAnderson1790 81_2_NLS_ToDrAnderson1790 81_3_NLS_ToDrAnderson1790 81_4_NLS_ToDrAnderson1790_Lbox	Publ. in DeLancey Ferguson Letters ii, p.47 H2: "1790 Nov 5 R Burns the poet Elisland"	Fleur de Lis watermark with Royal cipher. See Ferg Roy edn II:"Ferguson, 1931, in full. Cromek, 1808, printed a fragmentary first draft, from a MS. now in the Public Library, Liverpool; the Burns Chronicle, 1918, published about half the letter, reprinting it from a Sotheby catalogue of July 1917. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. In answer to a letter from Anderson of 2 Sept."	Letters 426.
82	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Alex Dalziel 1791, Cowie Collection	10 March 1791 10 March 1791	1791	MS 15951	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, folded sheet with letter on first two pages and address to Mr Alex Dalziel Factor Dumbarton on rear. Black wax seal intact with torn paper from other side of sealed letter still visible. Ms repaired at tear.	376W 225H	10	7/8"	Horizontal	Post and GR					82_7_NLS_ToADalziel1791_wm 82_8_NLS_ToADalziel1791_wm	82_1_NLS_ToADalziel1791 82_2_NLS_ToADalziel1791 82_3_NLS_ToADalziel1791 82_4_NLS_ToADalziel1791_Seal 82_5_NLS_ToADalziel1791_Lbox 82_6_NLS_ToADalziel1791_Lbox	Publ. in Delancey Ferguson Letters ii, p.61. H2: "R Burns 10 March 1791"	See Fergusson Roy edn. II: "Cromek, 1808. The date is here corrected, and the conclusion added, from the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. Dalziel replied on 16 June."	Letters 439 (3)
83	National Library of Scotland	Address to the Shade of Thomson, Cowie Collection 35	[1791]	[1791]	Ms 15951	Verse	Laid	Holograph verse, ink on excise paper, with ledger lines visible on rear. Single sheet, once folded, with repair on fold. Mounted to backing paper. Numerous hands on back. Currie's note (H2) above note by his son (H3); further note on provenance (H5).	245H 150W	5	1"	Vertical		GR				83_4_NLS_AddressThomson_wm	83_1_NLS_AddressThomson 83_2_NLS_AddressThomson 83_3_NLS_AddressThomson_Lbox	Publ Kinsley Poems ii, p.557. H2: [note by Currie] H3: "The above is the handwriting of Dr Currie, the editor of Burns, William Wallace Currie, his son" H4: [illegible] H5: "Bought by Gahan Brothers Antiquarians Dundee at the Morrison Manuscript Sale at Sotheby's London 5th May 1919 for the sum of £154. - - Signed James Gahan, G Wilkie Gahan." Use of excise paper for poetry.	Date of 1791 acc. to H6 on backing paper collated with Kinsley.	K331
84	National Library of Scotland	[To Chloris], Cowie Collection 36	[1795]	[1795]	MS 15951	Verse	Laid	Autograph verse, ink on paper. Single sheet, cut at bottom. H2 in pencil on rear provides note of provenance.	203W 175H	7	1"	Horizontal							84_1_NLS_ToChloris 84_2_NLS_ToChloris 84_3_NLS_ToChloris_Lbox	Publ Kinsley Poems ii, p.798. H2: "from[?] Currie / the hand writing of Robert Burns the poet given to me by W. Wallace Currie the 16 July 1823. Dr [Hodges?]"	Date suggested by Kinsley II:"To Chloris. Text from the Dalhousie MS (Dal; with letter to Alexander Cunningham, 3 August 1795), collated with the Adam MS, the Cowie MS (defective: lacking ll. 13–18), and Currie (iv. 242-4). Lines 17–20 written in the margin in Dal. Title in Cowie To M?s.—, written on the blank leaf of my Poems—"	K506
85	National Library of Scotland	Music for Come under my Plaidy, The Holand Bush and For the Sake of Somebody, Cowie Collection 37			MS 15951	Fragment	Laid	Musical transcriptions with Burns handwriting on both sides, ink on small piece of paper. H2 in ink on rear.	236W 148H	6	1"	Horizontal							85_1_MusicCowie37 85_2_MusicCowie37 85_3_MusicCowie37_Lbox	H2: "In Witherspoon's Songs Vol 2, page 41"	cf the 'Scots Musical Museum' - Volume VI, song 533 - 'Come under my plaidy'	SMM VI:533
86	National Library of Scotland	Letter [to Captain Gillespie] and Fragment to Miss Burnet [Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo]	[1790]	[1790]	[Acc 7973] MS.23638,	Letter Verse	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folded sheet. Addressed to Capn Gillespie on rear from 'Ellisland, Friday morn' , with 'Fragment' elegy to Miss Burnett on p.3.	245W 190H	9		Vertical	Lily and GR					86_4_NLS_ToMsBurnet_wm	86_1_NLS_ToMsBurnet 86_2_NLS_ToMsBurnet 86_3_NLS_ToMsBurnet_Lbox	letter containing early version of ‘Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo’ of (ca. 1790)	Letter to Captain [John] Gillespie concerning Moore's Zeluco, the poet's drunken behaviour and enclosing an early draft of first two stanzas of Elegy to Miss Burnett. Not in Fergusson Roy edn. cf. Kinsley II: "A Fragment. Text from the Afton Lodge MS (ff. 32v–33r), collated with the Rylands Library MS (RL; Utter to Mrs. Dunlop, 7 February 1791), the Adam MS, and Currie (ii. 319–20; Letter to Alexander Cunningham, 23 January 1791). Title in RL and Currie Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo. Adam has ll. 9–24 only; Currie lacks ll. 25–28" MS catalogued by NLS in 2016 with new call number.	K324;
87	National Library of Scotland	Letter of [to Mr John Somerville] May 1791	11 May 1791	1791	Acc 7974	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folio sheet. Letter intact, but part of ms torn of at fold on pp.3-4, and address missing. Water staining.	255W 230H	10		Horizontal	Post and GR					87_4_NLS_Letter1791_wm	87_1_NLS_Letter1791 87_2_NLS_Letter1791 87_3_NLS_Letter1791_Lbox	letter of (1791)	See Fergusson Roy, who did not have access to the ms: "Douglas, 1877. MS. not traced. Burns was most probably referring to his son William Nicol, who was born 9 April 1791. He may have meant to write 'about ten days ago'." Ms includes the line missing from Douglas and Ferg Roy edns: ...ten months ago collected ... [all my vigor into one focus & at a desperate push have begot] a little fellow…	Letters 451 (2)
88	National Library of Scotland	Answer to a Tiviotdale Farmer's wife's Epistle	22 March [1787]	[1787]	Acc 7748	Verse Epistle	Laid	Holograph poem, ink on paper, large folded sheet. Verse spans first 3 pages. Blank rear apart from H2	386W 320H	14		Vertical	Lion	GR				88_5_NLS_Tiviotdale_wm 88_6_NLS_Tiviotdale_cm	88_1_NLS_Tiviotdale 88_2_NLS_Tiviotdale 88_3_NLS_Tiviotdale 88_4_NLS_Tiviotdale_Lbox	autograph poem, ‘Answer to a Tiviotdale Farmer’s wife Epistle’ of (1787) H2: "Epistle to a Tiviotdale Farmer's wife March 22d"	cf. 46. Date collated with Kinsley, who does not appear to have had access to the NLS ms: "The Answer. Text from Stewart, 1802 (pp. 325-7), collated with Currie, 1800 (iii. 377; lines 1-42 only)". Variant text: e.g. 'God bless the Sex!' instead of Kinsley's 'Hale to the Sex!'.	K147B; Currie 1800; Stewart 1802
89	National Library of Scotland	Verse Letter of 1787 [To Renton of Lammerton]	[18 May 1787]	[1787]	Acc 8574	Verse Fragment	Laid	Auograph note/fragment, ink on paper. Small slip of paper. With accompanying note by Robert Chamers [to John C Renton, Berwick readdressed to Conservative Club, London] returning fragment to owner.	187H 113W	4	1"	Vertical	Post and GR					89_3_NLS_VerseLetter87_wm	89_1_NLS_VerseLetter87 89_2_NLS_VerseLetter87_Lbox	-verse letter of (1787) Accompanying note: "Dear Sir. Although I must regret to hear of one of your Burns fragments being missing, I am greatly grateful for your kindness in sending me the other; which, having now copied, I return. If the piece now missing should ever re-appear, I will hope to be favoured with a sight of it. I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, R. Chambers. John C. Renton, Esq'	Date from Kinsley, who did not have access to ms: "To Renton of Lamerton. Text from a facsimile of Burns's note in Dobell, The In-gatherer, 12 (November 1930), item 34. 156. Written about 18 May 1787, when Burns was in Berwickshire. John Renton apparently invited the poet to visit him at Mordington House, near Berwick; but there is no record of this in Burns's Journal. Renton was the father-in-law of Charles Sharpe of Hoddam, Dumfries, with whom Burns was acquainted later (see Letters 446 and 689). The MS, first published by Chambers in 1851, remained in Renton's family until 1930."	K156; Dobell, The In-gatherer, 12 (November 1930), item 34.
90	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Robert Graham 25 March 1788	25 March 1788	1788	Acc 8367	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folded sheet. Repair. Addressed to Robert Graham of Fintry, George St Edin. Good ex. of red wax seal and Mauchline poststamp. Mounted in frame. Acc. Folder includes facsimile copies from Christies	370W 226H	9		Horizontal	Pro Patria					90_6_LetterRGraham_wm	90_1_LetterRGraham 90_2_LetterRGraham 90_3_LetterRGraham_seal 90_4_LetterRGraham_post 90_5_LetterRGraham_Lbox	letter of (1788)	See Fergusson Roy edn: "Here first collected. Collated with a photocopy of the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The letter bears the postmark Mauchline MR 29, and it is endorsed: 'Robt Burns 25 March 1788'."	Letters 228B (2)
91	National Library of Scotland	It was the charming month of May	[Nov] 1794	1794	Acc 9649	Verse	Laid	Fragment of large sheet of excise paper with ledger lines on rear and H2 in ink. Unusual ink hand with pencil underneath in Burns' hand: possibly ink tracing out underlying pencil, but leaving out deleted pencil line. See also H2's note.	330H 204W	8		Vertical		R. Reid & Co.				91_7_NLS_CharmingMonth_wm	91_1_NLS_CharmingMonth 91_2_NLS_CharmingMonth 91_3_NLS_CharmingMonth 91_4_NLS_CharmingMonth 91_5_NLS_CharmingMonth 91_6_NLS_CharmingMonth_Lbox	H2 [Currie]: "Song 10th. Unfinished written w[] [a?] pencil - Copied" poem ‘It was the charming month of May’ of (1794)	Leask's OUP edn. tour journals notes that Burns wrote in pencil when travelling in a chaise. Young's article in the 2016 Chronicle speculates that Burns may have written verse ms in pencil on excise business for it to be copied over with ink later. Cf. Kinsley, Poems, vol.II, who consults (with variant of 'Chloe' instead of Chloris): "Text from the Dalhousie MS (Letter to Thomson, November 1794) , collated with SC, 1799 (69; alternative words)"	K465; R. Young, 'Parcel of mash'd old rags', Burns Chronicle 2016;
92	National Library of Scotland	Poems [The Fete Champetre fragment / misc. bawdy fragments)	[c.1788]	[c.1788]	Acc 10172	Verse Fragment	Laid	Holograph poem, ink on paper, single sheet. Sheet almost completely torn at horizontal folds and in need of repair. Signs that it had once been pasted into a larger volume.	195H 156W	7?		Horizontal							92_1_NLS_MiscPoems 92_2_NLS_MiscPoems 92_3_NLS_MiscPoems_Lbox 92_4_NLS_MiscPoems_Lbox	sheet of miscellaneous poetry in the hand of (n.d.)	Folder in which poem appears reads CA Coutts, Violet Rd, London E3 6QI 01-515 6171 1987. Contains a number of verse fragments, starting with the first stanza plus the first two lines of second stanza of 'Fete Champetre'. Date suggested from Kinsley, Poems, I: "The Fête Champetre. Text from Dewar's transcript of the Esty MS; letter to John Ballantine,? late July 1788. First words of ll. 33, 35, 53–54, where the MS is defective, supplied from Gilbert Burns's edition, 1820 (iv. 402–5) Editor’s Note 224. The Fête Champêtre was sent to John Ballantine in July 1788 (Letter 259). William Cuninghame of Enterkine, Tarbolton, came of age in 1788, while his mansions of Enterkine and Annbank (cf. I. 15) were under repair. 'Wishing to introduce himself with some eclat to the country,' says Gilbert Burns, 'he got temporary erections made on the banks of Ayr, tastefully decorated with shrubs and flowers, for a supper and ball, to which most of the respectable families in the county were invited. It was a novelty … and attracted much notice. A dissolution of parliament was soon expected, and this festivity was thought to be an introduction to a canvas…. [But] Mr. C. did not canvas the county' (Currie, 1820 edn., iv. 402). In 1794 Cuninghame married the daughter of Burns's patroness Mrs. Stewart of Stair and Afton, who built Afton Lodge on part of Cuninghame's estate. For the air Killiecrankie, see 38, introductory note."	K224
93	National Library of Scotland	Epistle to Mr Tytler of Woodhouselee	[May 1787]	[1787]	Acc 10610	Verse Epistle	Laid	Autograph poem, ink on paper, large folded sheet. Addressed to Mr Tytler New Street on rear. Ms repaired along tears in folds. H2 has written out recipient but "Tytler" and "Woodhouselee" have been scored out.	400W 322H	16		Vertical	Britannia	R. Williams	Hollingbourne, Kent	England		93_4_NLS_ToMrTytler_wm 93_5_NLS_ToMrTytler_cm	93_1_NLS_ToMrTytler 93_2_NLS_ToMrTytler 93_3_NLS_ToMrTytler_Lbox	poem of (n.d.) H2: "To Wm Tytler Mr of Woodhouselee with the Poets P[ortrait?]" "R Burns poem to WT"		K152
94	National Library of Scotland	Lines to Miss Ferrier, Enclosing the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair	[1787]	[1787]	Acc 9143	Verse Epistle	Laid	Holograph lines, ink on paper, single sheet.	257H 206W	9		Horizontal		LVG	Egmond a/d Hoef, North Holland	Holland		94_5_NLS_ToMsFerrier_wm	94_1_NLS_ToMsFerrier 94_2_NLS_ToMsFerrier 94_3_NLS_ToMsFerrier 94_4_NLS_ToMsFerrier_Lbox	Lines ‘To Miss Ferrier’ of (1787). Bound 19th-C folder reads 'Burns Autograph Verses to Miss Ferrier'.		K161
95	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Mrs Dunlop 10 April 1790	10 April 1790	1790	Acc 8810	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, large sheet which has split and been rejoined at the fold. Addressed on rear to Mrs Dunlop of Dunlop Dunlop House Stewarton with Annan postmark and remains of red wax seal and paper torn when opening. H2 in pencil. H3 ink.	400W 325H	16		Vertical	Britannia	Band	Somerset	England		95_5_NLS_LetterDunlop1790_wm 95_6_NLS_LetterDunlop1790_cm	95_1_NLS_LetterDunlop1790 95_2_NLS_LetterDunlop1790 95_3_NLS_LetterDunlop1790 95_4_NLS_LetterDunlop1790_Lbox	H2: 'Folio 43' H3: "10 April 1790. A very good Burns to Mrs Dunlop excellent moral disquisition character of McKenzie's writings - Lounger, Man of Feeling &c Folder reads "Robert Burns Born in Ayrshire 25 Jan 1759 Valuable Autograph to Mrs Dunlop Eulogy of McKenzie the Lounger & Moral Reflections Died in Dumfries 21 July 1796"	See Ferguson Roy edn, vol.II: "Currie, 1800. Here collated with a photocopy of the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The bracketed quotation marks have been added; bracketed letters are missing from the MS. Currie has noted on the MS. 'excellent moral disquisition … character of Mckenzies writings."	Letters 397(47); Shorter 1971, 60
97	National Library of Scotland	Poetic Note [reply] to Capn Riddel			Acc 11649	Verse Epistle	Laid	Autograph note to Roberrt Riddel, ink on paper. Folded sheet, note on front, address on rear to Captn Riddel, Carse. Riddel's own poetic note overleaf.	250W 198H	5	1"	Vertical	Post					97_4_NLS_NoteRiddel_wm 97_5_NLS_NoteRiddel_wm	97_1_NLS_NoteRiddel 97_2_NLS_NoteRiddel 97_3_NLS_NoteRiddel	poetic note by (n.d.), Acc 11649		K529
98	National Library of Scotland	Kind Sir I’ve read your paper through	[1790]	[1790]	Acc 8252	Verse Epistle	Laid	Verse epistle in Burns' hand. Poem on 2 sides of what was once a folded sheet. Only a small square remains of rear, on which appears H2, a note by Currie, and remains of red wax seal.	189H 150W [from wha	7	1"	Horizontal		JB				98_4_NLS_KindSir_wm	98_1_NLS_KindSir 98_2_NLS_KindSir 98_3_NLS_KindSir_Lbox 98_5_NLS_KindSir	- autograph poem, ‘Kind Sir I’ve read your paper through’, Acc 8252 H2 (Currie): "Copied by W[illiam]. W[allace]. Currie"	See Kinsley, II: "To a Gentleman. Text from Currie, 1801 (iv. 355-6). Henley and Henderson record a MS (not traced) without variation. Title in Currie The following Poem was written to a Gentleman … expense. Date in Currie Ellisland … 1790" Ferguson Roy Letters vol.II, also note: "Currie, 1800, who dates the poem 1790. MS. not traced."	K282; Letters 385A
99	National Library of Scotland	Exciseman's notes			Dep 308	Excise Fragment	Laid	Excise notes in Burns' hand, ink on paper, in small booklet. 5 leaves made from possibly 3 pieces of paper. Rough edge on right. Excise stamps appear on 1, 3, 6, 8, 10.	197H 85W [Max. Irreg	Various		Horizontal	Britannia					99_7_NLS_ExciseNotes_wm 99_8_NLS_ExciseNotes_wm 99_10_NLS_ExciseNotes_wm	99_1_NLS_ExciseNotes 99_2_NLS_ExciseNotes 99_3_NLS_ExciseNotes 99_4_NLS_ExciseNotes 99_5_NLS_ExciseNotes 99_6_NLS_ExciseNotes_Lbox 99_9_NLS_ExciseNotes_Lbox	collection containing exciseman’s notes of (n.d.), Dep 308 Accompanying note of provenance: "Scraps in the Handwriitng of Burns found in the Excise Store Chest of Thornhill Ride when he was Officer from 1789 to 1792"	More than one example of the Britannia watermark.
100	National Library of Scotland	Letter [to Mrs Dunlop], Dec 31st	31 December 1792	1792	11233	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter, ink on paper. Folded sheet with large portion of rear missing and repair. H2 comment in ink on paper on verso.		10	1"	Horizontal		Unidentified				100_6_NLS_LetterDec31_wm	100_1_NLS_LetterDec31 100_2_NLS_LetterDec31 100_3_NLS_LetterDec31 100_4_NLS_LetterDec31 100_5_NLS_LetterDec31_Lbox	- letter of (?1792), Acc 11233 H2 "-!!! -Would that he had" added as comment on sentence by Burns about him giving up hard drinking.	Envelope: "CA Coutts / Violet Road/ London/ E3 3QL/ 071 515 6171 / 1992" Fergusson Roy edn vol.II notes that the ms was in private hands	Letters 529 (65)
101	National Library of Scotland	Epistle Esopus to Maria	[c.1794-95]	[c.1794-95]	Acc 10982	Verse	Laid	Holograph poem, ink on paper. Single folio sheet with verse on all four leaves. Significant fading of ink, particularly on front, and dirt on rear.	408W 255H	10	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					101_5_NLS_Esopus_wm	101_1_NLS_Esopus 101_2_NLS_Esopus 101_3_NLS_Esopus 101_4_NLS_Esopus_Lbox	- autograph manuscript of poem ‘Fragment- Epsitle from Esopus to Maria’ of (ca. 1794), Acc 10982	CA Coutts Violet Road LondoE3 3QL 01 515 617 1990 Kinsley Poems vol.II suggests date of 1794-95, and also notes the textual history: "No holograph has been traced. The copy dated 1815 (collated by J. C. Ewing; see infra) was apparently made from an early version. Cunningham says that his text is printed from Burns's manuscript; and his transcript of the epistle is with other poems by Burns, 'coll'd' from various sources, in a copy of the Merry Muses (?1825) in the British Museum (see G. Legman, The Horn Book, 1964, pp. 131 ff.). A third copy, made by John Syme, was published by J. C. Ewing in the Burns Chronicle, 1935 (see textual notes). This is an edited copy: it gives cancelled readings and corrections, identifications of persons in the poem, and a head-note which indicates that Syme knew of an earlier version: 'The whole letter is now extended as follows—addressed to Maria.' Syme's and Cunningham's texts are, for copies made independently, strikingly alike. There are, however, enough differences to dispose of the suspicion that Cunningham used Syme's copy, ignoring the rejected readings. Cunningham omitted 11. 47–48 in 1834; but this was probably accidental, as the lines are in his transcript in the Merry Muses and their omission does not substantially reduce the impropriety of the lampoon. J. De L. Ferguson argues (Modern Philology, xxviii (1930), 178–84) against Burns's authorship of Esopus to Maria on these grounds: (i) the poem is not mentioned in Burns's extant letters, though other lampoons on the Riddells are; (ii) the name 'Esopus' and the tag in 1. 38 are suspicious, 'for Burns had no Latin'; (iii) Andrew McDoual (see 11. 31–38, note) 'escapes almost unwhipped'; (iv) Burns 'had tried to soft-pedal' his political heresies (11. 41–42) since January 1793 (see supra, p. 1381, December); the 'extravagant self-praise' in 11. 49–51 is out of character; (v) in satire Burns 'attacks always the moral weaknesses of his victims, not their physical peculiarities'; (vi) Burns would have charged Maria with adultery less equivocally than in 1. 72; and (vii) Burns's acknowledged lampoons on Maria belong to the early months of 1794, and in January 1795 he was 'making the first formal advance … to complete reconciliation'. Ferguson was unaware that three copies of the epistle survive, two of them ascribing it to Burns. But apart from this, his arguments are not convincing, (i) Not all Burns's letters survive, and Syme's note on his transcript—'The foregoing is quite private'—may well express the poet's own anxiety; (ii) Burns had some Latin, and these allusions are commonplace anyhow; (iii) the sarcasm of 11. 33–34 is effective enough, on this scale of satiric reference; (iv) the reference in 11. 41–42 is ironic, and the poem anyhow 'quite private'; (v) allusions to Maria's physical appearance are secondary to the satire (11. 17–20, 45–46) and do not, as Ferguson says, 'bear the brunt'—the epistle is not a caricature in words; (vi) the figure in 1. 72 is fairly conventional, and has not necessarily any sexual reference; (vii) it was Maria, not Burns, who made the first move towards reconciliation (see Burns's formal reply in Letter 650, probably written in January 1795), and this does not rule out the possibility of the poem's being written early in January. Ferguson proposes Charles Sharpe of Hoddam as one of the few local gentry who might have been able to write Esopus to Maria. But although the poem is not impressive satire, evidence is wanting that there was anyone other than Burns in Dumfries society who was capable of writing the opening passage, 11. 29–44, or 11. 65–66."	K486; Burns Chronicle, 1935, pp. 35-38.
102	National Library of Scotland	Letter to Patrick Miller	[April-May 1787]	[1787]	Acc 11475	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper. Single folded sheet, addressed on rear to Patrick Miller Esquire of Dalswinton. Blank inside except for H2 note.	240W 193H	9		Vertical							102_1_NLS_LetterPMiller 102_2_NLS_LetterPMiller 102_3_NLS_LetterPMiller_Lbox	- letter of (1787), Acc 11475 H2:"Robt. Burns Dumfries [?***] 1798 with [his] poems answered"	CA Coutts LTD Violet RD London E3 3OL 515 617 #33 7001 Not in Fergusson Roy. Date estimated based on 21st April publication of Edin edn referred to in letter.
103	National Library of Scotland	Note to Mr Nicol.	[1787-96]	[1787-96]	Acc 10847	Note	Laid	Autograph note on small slip of paper, torn on top edge, ink, with accompanying typed transcription. Partial poststamps on rear (incl. partial MA. For Mauchline)	187W 91H	4		Horizontal							103_1_NLS_NoteNicol 103_2_NLS_NoteNicol 103_3_NLS_NoteNicol 103_4_NLS_NoteNicol_post 103_5_NLS_NoteNicol_post 103_6_NLS_NoteNicol_Lbox	volume containing letters and engravings of and other material relating to, gathered to mark centenary of birth of (1859), Acc 10847	p.5 has note in Burns' hand. Rest of bound volume features misc. items, engravings etc related to Burns. Fergusson Roy note: "Here first collected from a facsimile in an auction catalogue. MS. not traced." (Letters II: 391-92). But signs of a Mauchline date stamp on verso may help date the ms.	Letters 712 (10)
104	National Library of Scotland	Epistle to J. Lapraik, Coulter Collection 1-2	April 1785	1785	MS 23150	Verse Epistle	Laid	Autograph poem, ink on paper. Large folio sheet. Significant dirt and fading on middle folded section on rear. Signed and dated Mossgiel near Mauchline 1785 Note by H2 on rear.	390W 322H	14?	1"	Vertical	Britannia	F Hayes	Bougthon Mill, Northhamptonshire	England		104_6_NLS_Lapraik_wm 104_8_NLS_Lapraik_cm	104_1_NLS_Lapraik 104_2_NLS_Lapraik 104_3_NLS_Lapraik 104_4_NLS_Lapraik 104_5_NLS_Lapraik_Lbox 104_7_NLS_Lapraik_Lbox	- collection containing letters and papers of and concerning, collected by Adam Sim of Coulter (1785-1824), [Acc 9338] MS 23150 H2: "This sheet is the Original Epistle written and signed by the hand of Burns and Sent to John Lapraik Muirkirk - In 1799 I was in the old Bard's House, and He seeing me such an enthusiastic admirer of Burns presented me with the Sheet. John [?Brown]		K57; Shorter 1971, 65
105	National Library of Scotland	Letter to George Lockhart, Coulter Collection 3-4	18 July 1788	1788	MS 23150	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper. Folio sheet. Mauchline post-stamp on rear and addressed to "Mr. George Lockhart Mercht. At Miss Gray's Glasgow". Auction and other notes bound in same volume	376W 235H	9		Horizontal	Post and GR					105_1_NLS_LetterGL1788_wm 105_1_NLS_LetterGL1788_wm	105_1_NLS_LetterGL1788 105_2_NLS_LetterGL1788 105_3_NLS_LetterGL1788 105_4_NLS_LetterGL1788_Lbox	- collection containing letters and papers of and concerning, collected by Adam Sim of Coulter (1785-1824), [Acc 9338] MS 23150. Accompanying note: "Mr Geo Lockhart Glasgow. In this letter he speaks of the 'lovely Miss Bailies' dated Mauchline 18 July 17 Reliques 68. In a note on this letter Mr Cromek quotes an observation of Burns in which he says that 'a refined and accomplished woman is a being almost new to him'" Auctioned William Pickering collection at Sotheby's 1854.	Ferguson Roy note that "The MS. was formerly at Castle Milk, Lockerbie." (Letters I:297)	Letters 256
106	National Library of Scotland	O'er the Moor Amang the Heather, Coulter Collection 8	[1792]	[1792]	Acc 23150	Verse	Laid	Holograph poem, ink on paper, single sheet with verse both sides. Some smearing and blotting and repair/preservation to ms. Note by H2, ink, under title, referring to publication in SMM	200H 126W	5		Vertical							106_1_NLS_OerTheMoor 106_2_NLS_OerTheMoor 106_3_NLS_OerTheMoor_Lbox	- collection containing letters and papers of and concerning, collected by Adam Sim of Coulter (1785-1824), [Acc 9338] MS 23150. H2: "Vol IV. Song 328"	See Johnson Scots Musical Museum and Kinsley Poems II (635)	SMM IV 328; K635
107	National Library of Scotland	Masonic Song, Tune Shawnboy, Coulter Collection 9	[pre October 1786]	1786	MS 23150	Verse	Laid	Holograph song, ink on paper, one side. Note on provenance by H2 in ink at bottom signed by Mr Parker, apparently Master of the Kilmarnock Lodge. Volume contains notes on auction sale and buyer overleaf.	235H 196W	[CHECK ima	25mm	Horizontal	Lily					107_4_NLS_MasonSong_wm	107_1_NLS_MasonSong 107_2_NLS_MasonSong 107_3_NLS_MasonSong_Lbox	H2: "NB This song wrote by Mr Burns was sung by him in the Kilmarnock Kilwinning Lodge in 1786 & given by him to Mr Parker who was then Master of the Lodge. Mr Parker"	- collection containing letters and papers of and concerning, collected by Adam Sim of Coulter (1785-1824), [Acc 9338] MS 23150. Partial watermark	K128
108	National Library of Scotland	Fragment of glossary, Coulter Collection 10	[1786]	[1786]	MS 23150	Fragment	Laid	Holograph fragment, ink on small irregular fragment of paper. H2 writes a descriptive note at bottom of fragment. Bound with note to the letter which is bound in the next page of the volume.	150W 74H [irregular	2		Vertical							108_1_NLS_Glossary 108_2_NLS_Glossary_Lbox	- collection containing letters and papers of and concerning, collected by Adam Sim of Coulter (1785-1824), [Acc 9338] MS 23150. H2: "A Portion of the Glossary to the first Edition of Burns' Poems in the Poet's own handwriting R Burns"	Ms date estimated against publicaiton of Kilmarnock edn.
109	National Library of Scotland	Copy of letters Captain Grose and Dugald Stewart, Coulter Collection 12	[1790]*	[1790]	MS 23150	Letter	Laid	Holograph copies of letters to Grose and introduction of Grose to Stewart, ink on excise paper. Ledger lines and 2 excise stamps on rear along with a note in H2	226W 324H	8?		Vertical	Lion					109_6_NLS_CopyLetters1792_wm	109_1_NLS_CopyLetters1792 109_2_NLS_CopyLetters1792 109_3_NLS_CopyLetters1792 109_4_NLS_CopyLetters1792 109_5_NLS_CopyLetters1792_Lbox	H2: "Letter to Capt Grose introducing Mr Stewart" Note (11): "Copy of a letter to Capt Grose introducing Mr Dugald Stewart to him: and on the other side, a fragment of the, introducing him to Mr Dugald Stewart dated 1792. Reliques 123"	- collection containing letters and papers of and concerning, collected by Adam Sim of Coulter (1785-1824), [Acc 9338] MS 23150. *Date from Fergusson Roy edn of Letters II, which notes the date of 1790, as opposed to the 1792 wirtten by another hand on the ms, and also note that "Cromek, 1808, who dated it 1792. MS. not traced."	Letters 408 (2)
110	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose.	21 June 1783	1783	LSH 672/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, signed "your affectionate Cousin Robt Burness", ink on paper. Single folio sheet, with folds for envelope. Repairs including right hand side of 1 and large repair on 3-4 cutting through watermark. Remains of wax seal on 4.	288H 378W	15	1"	Vertical	[Britannia?]	J [T?]. Benson &	Egremont, Cumbria	England		110_WM_ToJamesBurnessJun1783 (3) 110_WM_ToJamesBurnessJun1783 (4) 110_WM_ToJamesBurnessJun1783 (5) 110_WM_ToJamesBurnessJun1783 (6)	110_WM_ToJamesBurnessJun1783 (1) 110_WM_ToJamesBurnessJun1783 (2) 110_WM_ToJamesBurnessJun1783 (7) 110_WM_ToJamesBurnessJun1783 (8)	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Lochlea, 21 June 1783, referring to his father's unexpected death and farming conditions at Lochlea.	Possible Brittania watermark. Ferguson Roy Letters I note on the ms: "Gilbert Burns, 1820. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. The MS. is slightly torn; missing words are supplied from the printed text."	Letters 14 (1); Shorter 1971, 73
111	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Mossgiel, 3 August 1784.	3 Aug 1784	1784	LSH 673/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter signed Robert Burness, ink on paper. Single folded sheet. Repair on middle of fold. Addressed to Mr James Burness Writer Montrose on rear with H2 [Currie]: "Buchanites 17*4".	220H 360W	8	Approx 1&q	Horizontal		Unidentified				111_WM_ToJamesBurnessAug1784 (4) 111_WM_ToJamesBurnessAug1784 (5) 111_WM_ToJamesBurnessAug1784 (6)	111_WM_ToJamesBurnessAug1784 (1) 111_WM_ToJamesBurnessAug1784 (2) 111_WM_ToJamesBurnessAug1784 (3)	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Mossgiel, 3 August 1784. The letter makes many scathing references to the religious tenets and practices of the Buchanites.	Chain lines not all straight thus irregular sizes. Watermark not clear. Ferguson Roy Letters I notes: "Cunningham, 1834 in part; completed by Douglas, 1877. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. The edge of the MS. is torn and the word in brackets is missing.]"	Letters 17 (3)
112	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to Thomas Sloan, dated Ellisland, 1 September 1791.	1 Sep 1791	1791	LSH 674/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folded sheet, folded again into envelope. Significant repairs and a section missing under signature. Wax seal also removed, possibly when opening.	227H 359W	10	Irregular,	Horizontal	Post					112_WM_ToThoSloanSep1791 (3) 112_WM_ToThoSloanSep1791 (4) 112_WM_ToThoSloanSep1791 (5)	112_WM_ToThoSloanSep1791 (1) 112_WM_ToThoSloanSep1791 (2)	"Robert Burns to Thomas Sloan, dated Ellisland, 1 September 1791. The letter tells of the selling of the poet's crop prior to his leaving Ellisland and of the 'Scene of drunkenness' that ensued Burns also here quotes the couplet as in his letter to his brother William: 'Whether doing, suffering or forbearing, / You may do miracles by persevering'."	Irregular chain width - see image. Papermaker's initials included in post watermark. Fergusson Roy Letters II notes: "Cromek, 1808. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh."	Letters 466 (2)
113	Writer’s Museum	Letter from Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Inverness, 4th September 1787	4 Sep 1787	1787	LSH 675/92	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter, ink on paper, recto of single folded sheet. Signature missing, as recorded in pencil on rear by H2 transcribing accompanying note. H3 in ink also transcribing the note by Burns' son. H4 ink on envelope. Postmark and wax seal in 2 pieces.	223H 372W	9	1"	Horizontal		C. Taylor	Maidstone, Kent	England		113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (3) 113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (4)	113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (1) 113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (2) 113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (5) 113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (6) 113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (7) 113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (8) 113_WM_ToJamesBurness4Sep1787 (9) 113_WM_ToJ	"Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Inverness, 4th September 1787, referring to his forthcoming visit to Stonehive (Stonehaven) on 10th September."	Accompanying note by R Burns, son, The Signature of this letter cut off + presented to Rob. Caddell Esq Bookseller Edin. 18 Dec 1829. As recorded in Fergusson Roy Letters I: "[Douglas, 1877. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. The signature has been cut out of the MS., which bears the following endorsement by the recipient: 'The signature of this letter cut off and presented to Robt. Caddell, Esq., Bookseller, Edinburgh, 18th Dec. 1828—J.B.']"	Letters 134 (5); Shorter 1971, 40-1, 60, 61, 70, 91
114	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated 19 September 1787	19 September 1787	1787	LSH 676/92	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter, ink on paper, folded into envelope. Autograph cut off as recorded by H2 on rear, H3 recording original signature. H4, ink, recording "Robert Burns Edinburgh 19 Sep 87" above address. Note of provenance attached to rear. Hole from seal.	227H 380W	9	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					114_WM_ToJamesBurness19Sep1787 (5) 114_WM_ToJamesBurness19Sep1787 (6)	114_WM_ToJamesBurness19Sep1787 (1) 114_WM_ToJamesBurness19Sep1787 (2) 114_WM_ToJamesBurness19Sep1787 (3) 114_WM_ToJamesBurness19Sep1787 (4) 114_WM_ToJamesBurness19Sep1787 (7)	"Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated 19 September 1787, referring to the sending of nine copies of the Edinburgh edition of his poems to his cousin for distribution. 'Presented to the honorable William Maule of Panmure, the generous benefactor and friend of the family of Robert Burns.'"	As recorded in Ferguson Roy edn: "[Douglas, 1877. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. The signature has been cut out of the MS., which bears the following endorsement: 'The signature cut out by Mr Burness and presented to the Hon. Wm Maule of Panmure, 1821.']"	Letters 138 (7)
115	Writer’s Museum	One letter from Robert Burns to Alexander Findlater, Dumfries, headed Saturday morn, no date.	[February 1790]	[1790]	LSH 679/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on 1 side of small folded sheet of paper.	161H 184W	8	1"	Vertical	Britannia					115_WM_ToAlexFindlater (3) 115_WM_ToAlexFindlater (4)	115_WM_ToAlexFindlater (1) 115_WM_ToAlexFindlater (2)	"One letter from Robert Burns to Alexander Findlater, Dumfries, headed Saturday morn, no date. A short note accompanying a gift of new-laid eggs."	Date from the Ferguson Roy edn, who note: "Douglas, 1877. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh."	Letters 393 (4)
116	Writer’s Museum	'The Kirk's Alarm'	[1789]	[1789]	LSH 681/a-b/92	Verse	Laid	Autograph verse, ink on paper, two sheets of MS marked (a) and (b)	(a) 191W 245H (b) 20	10	15/16"	Horizontal		IV	Hattem, Guelderland	Holland		116_WM_Kirk's Alarm (4) 116_WM_Kirk's Alarm (5)	116_WM_Kirk's Alarm (1) 116_WM_Kirk's Alarm (2) 116_WM_Kirk's Alarm (3)	"'The Kirk's Alarm', two sheets MSS, with marginal notes by the poet."	Did not remove mss from protective cover due to fragility. Date from Kinsley edn.	K264
117	Writer’s Museum	One letter from Robert Burns to 'Clarinda' (1788)	[14 Feb 1788]	[1788]	LSH 682/92	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter, ink on two sides of paper. Some damage to ms along folds.	186W 227H	9	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					117_WM_ToMcLehose14Feb1788 (3) 117_WM_ToMcLehose14Feb1788 (4)	117_WM_ToMcLehose14Feb1788 (1) 117_WM_ToMcLehose14Feb1788 (2)	"One letter from Robert Burns to 'Clarinda' (1788) - 'Can I wish that I had never seen you? That we had never met? No, I never will … Forgive me, Clarinda, the injury I have done you. Tonight I shall be with you, as indeed I shall be ill at ease till I see you.'"	Fergusson Roy Letters I notes: "Stewart, 1802. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. Two short passages have been cut out, and are here given conjecturally in brackets. Only the first appears in Stewart. The letter was not signed."	Letters 201 (29)
118	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose - a letter	5 July 1786	1786	LSH 691/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on single side of folio sheet, folded into envelope, address on rear. H2 [Currie?] recording wrong date of 1784, H3 recording 1786. Fine paper with staining and water damage.	236H 378W	9	1"	Horizontal	Post	L.V.Gerrevink	Alkmaar	Holland		118_WM_ToJamesBurness5Jul1786 (2) 118_WM_ToJamesBurness5Jul1786 (3)	118_WM_ToJamesBurness5Jul1786 (1)	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose - a letter referring to earlier letters to his cousin which had remained unanswered, dated from 'Mossigiel near Machlin ( Mauchline), July 5th, 1786'.	Fergusson Roy Letters I notes : "Douglas, 1877. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh."	Letters 32 (4)
119	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to the Earl of Buchan, dated 7 February 1787	7 Feb 1787	1787	LSH 697/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folded sheet with repair on centrefold. Marginalia by H2 and H3. Hole and repair where wax seal was and where envlope was opened.	230H 366W	9	15/16"	Horizontal	Post	LVG	Egmond a/d Hoef, North Holland	Holland		119_WM_ToEarlBuchan7Feb1787 (6) 119_WM_ToEarlBuchan7Feb1787 (7)	119_WM_ToEarlBuchan7Feb1787 (1) 119_WM_ToEarlBuchan7Feb1787 (2) 119_WM_ToEarlBuchan7Feb1787 (3) 119_WM_ToEarlBuchan7Feb1787 (4) 119_WM_ToEarlBuchan7Feb1787 (5)	Robert Burns to the Earl of Buchan, dated Edinburgh, 7th February 1787, thanking him for his notice of the poet and his advice to him. 'Praise from thy lips? 'tis mine with joy to boast / They best can give it who deserve it most.' Marginalia recording "Lawn Market" and "Robert Burns the Airshire Poet to the Earl of Buchan Feb 7 1787. [/] See Dr Anderson's Bee vol 2 p.318 where there are also Lord Buchan's address to the Poet."	Possibly not Dutch paper as LVG was used by British papermakers according to Shorter 1957 examples of watermarks. Ferguson Roy Letters I notes: "[Currie, 1800; corrected by Wallace, 1896, from the original MS., now in the City Museum, Edinburgh. This is the copy sent to the Earl; three other MSS. of the letter are preserved: Burns's draft copy, now in the British Library, his transcript in the Don MS., Edinburgh University Library, and his transcript in the Edinburgh Commonplace Book, in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The present text follows the City Museum MS. except for the heading, which is taken from the Don MS., and the bracketed passage, which occurs in both draft and transcript but is not in the letter as sent. The bracketed portion of Burns's address has been torn from the MS. This was one of the earliest of Burns's personal letters to appear in print, being published in The Bee, 27 April 1791.]"	Letters 82 (1)
120	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Ellisland, 9th February 1789.	9 Feb 1789	1789	LSH 698/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folio sheet with Burns' letter across 3 sides, envelope and address on last with poststamps. Repairs to folds. Accompanying note that would have been stuck over address at some point.	252H 400W	11	15/16"	Horizontal	Post and GR					120_WM_ToJamesBurness9Feb1789 (4) 120_WM_ToJamesBurness9Feb1789 (5)	120_WM_ToJamesBurness9Feb1789 (1) 120_WM_ToJamesBurness9Feb1789 (2) 120_WM_ToJamesBurness9Feb1789 (3)	"Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Ellisland, 9th February 1789. The letter refers to Burns' recent settlement at Ellisland, his happiness in his marriage and his hopes of an excise appointment by favour of Mr Graham of Fintry. 2pp. (separate)."	Fergusson Roy Letters I notes: "[Gilbert Burns, 1820; completed by Wallace, 1896. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. The letter has been heavily creased, and the words in brackets have been written over in another hand.]"	Letters 314 (8)
121	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Dumfries, 12 July 1796	12 July 1796	1796	LSH 699/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single sheet folded with lettter on first two sides, address for envelope on rear. Dumfries poststamp and red postdate (July 14).	H253 W400	10	1"	Horizontal		Curteis & Sons	Carshalton, Surrey	England		121_WM_ToJamesBurness12July1796 (3) 121_WM_ToJamesBurness12July1796 (4)	121_WM_ToJamesBurness12July1796 (1) 121_WM_ToJamesBurness12July1796 (2) 121_WM_ToJamesBurness12July1796 (5) 121_WM_ToJamesBurness12July1796 (6)	"Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Dumfries, 12 July 1796, lamenting his financial difficulties and asks for assistance in resolving them."	Fergusson Roy Letters II notes: "[J. G. Lockhart, Life of Robert Burns (Edinburgh, 1830); reprinted in Cunningham, 1834. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. The bracketed portions are not in the MS., but were added by Lockhart. Burness sent his cousin the money requested.]"	Letters 705 (9); Shorter 1957, p.286 (fig. 32 for example of watermark); Shorter 1971, p.60
122	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop, dated Mauchline, 27th September 1788	27 Sep 1788	1788	LSH 700/92	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink, across 3 and bit sides of single folded sheet. Address faded by staining on rear and brittle. Mauchline postmark and wax seal. H2 ink records "Folio 23 27 Sep 88".	H234 W360	9	Irregular	Horizontal	Post and GR					122_WM_ToMrsDunlop27Sep1788 (5) 122_WM_ToMrsDunlop27Sep1788 (6)	122_WM_ToMrsDunlop27Sep1788 (1) 122_WM_ToMrsDunlop27Sep1788 (2) 122_WM_ToMrsDunlop27Sep1788 (3) 122_WM_ToMrsDunlop27Sep1788 (4)	Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop, dated Mauchline, 27th September 1788 - 'Your Criticisms, my honoured Benefactress, are truly the work of a Friend...' The letter contains a four verse poem beginning 'Fate gave the word, the arrow sped'.	Irregular chain lines varying 1" and 1 1/16", some not straight. From Ferguson Roy Letters I: "[Cromek, 1808, in part; completed by Douglas, 1877. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. The MS. is damaged; bracketed words are conjectural.]"	Letters 275 (23)
123	Writer’s Museum	Letter from Robert Burns to Peter Hill	17 May 1787	1787	LSH 701/92	Letter	Laid	Short autograph note to Hill, ink on one side of small piece of paper.	W187 H220	9	1"	Horizontal		C. Taylor	Maidstone, Kent	England		123_WM_ToPeterHill17May1787 (2) 123_WM_ToPeterHill17May1787 (3)	123_WM_ToPeterHill17May1787 (1)	"Robert Burns to Peter Hill, 7th March 1787 [sic] - a brief letter regarding distribution of copies of the Edinburgh Edition." "Peter Hill c/o Creech see p116, vol I Ross Roy"	[Douglas, 1877. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh. The address, if any, is not visible as a piece of paper has been pasted over that part of the MS. where it should be.]"	Letters 108 (1); Shorter 1971, 40-1, 60, 61, 70, 91
124	Writer’s Museum	Scots Wha Hae, Bruce's Address to his troops at Bannockburn	[1795]	[1795]	LSH 703/92	Verse	Laid	Holograph poem, ink on paper, covering all sides of single folio sheet. H2 Dr Hughes marginalia on composition, and H3 daughter Barbara Hughes' further note on provenance. Another ink note reads "Burns's own writing"	H229 W374	10	Irregular	Horizontal	Post and GR					124_WM_ScotsWhaHae (4) 124_WM_ScotsWhaHae (5)	124_WM_ScotsWhaHae (1) 124_WM_ScotsWhaHae (2) 124_WM_ScotsWhaHae (3)	"Manuscript - 'Scots wha hae', Bruce's Address to his troops at Bannockburn, along with a description of the death of the Cummin in the Priory Church, Dumfries - by Burns." H2: "A beautiful Poem given me by the Author Mr Burns the celebrated Scotish [sic] Poet, when at Dumfries Saty. Aug. 8th 1795. [J?].H." H3: "given to my father in Law, Dr Hughes of Hereford by Burns. [/] Barbara Hughes"	Irregular chain lines. Version of lyrics with extra syllables in last line of stanza (for alternate tune selected originally by Thomson)? Date suggested by note on Provenance. See Kinsley for details of publication.	K425
125	Writer’s Museum	Kilmarnock mss - 'A Prayer [in the Prospect of Death] when Dangerously threaten'd with Pleuratic attacks'; 'Stanzas on the same occasion, in the manner of Beattie's Minstrel'; 'A Fragment…'	[c.1784-1786]	[c.1784-86]	LSH 704/92	Verse	Laid	Ms holograph poems. Ink on paper. Marginalia in H2: "Poems by Robert Burns"	H305 W358	15	1"	Vertical	Georgian Arms	Dalmuir	Dalmuir, Clydebank	Scotland		125_WM_KilmarnockMSS (3) 125_WM_KilmarnockMSS (4) 125_WM_KilmarnockMSS (5)	125_WM_KilmarnockMSS (1) 125_WM_KilmarnockMSS (2)	Ms poems from the Kilmarnock edition - 'A Prayer when Dangerously threaten'd with Pleuratic attacks, and in the prospect of death, 1785'; 'Stanzas on the same occasion, in the manner of Beattie's Minstrel'; 'The first six verses of the Ninetieth Psalm versified'; 'A Fragment, in the hour of remorse, on seeing a fellow creature in misery whom I had once known in better days'.		K13; Shorter 1971, 195, 196, 199, 201, 206
126	Writer’s Museum	'Verses intended to be written under a noble Earl's picture'	[1786]	[1786]	LSH 705/92	Verse	Laid	Holograph poem in ink on single side of 1 sheet.	W178 H228	9	1"	Horizontal		L. PAINE	Chartham Mill, Kent	England		126_WM_VersesEarlsPicture (2) 126_WM_VersesEarlsPicture (3)	126_WM_VersesEarlsPicture (1)	"'Verses intended to be written under a noble Earl's picture', ie the Earl of Glencairn. Mounted on card." H2: "Robert Burns's own writing"	Date from Kinsley I :"Written before 13 January 1787, when Burns sent his verses to the Earl of Glencairn (see 334): 'The inclosed Stanzas I intended to have written below a Picture or Profile of your Lordship, could I have been so happy as to procure one with any thing of a likeness.… Allow me, my Lord … to be permitted to publish these verses' (Letter 75). This 'darling Petition' was apparently refused by Glencairn who, Burns admitted two months later, 'does me the honor of giving me his strictures: his hints, with respect to impropriety or indelicacy, I follow implicitly' (Letter 90). The verses remained in manuscript until 1851."	K137; Shorter 1957, p.198 for Leeds Paine's Mill.
127	Writer’s Museum	Burns to John Tennant, Esq., dated Ellisland, 22 December 1788.	22 December 1788	1788	LSH 760/93	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on single sheet folded paper with letter on 3 sides, addressed 'Haste' to Tennant "Innkeeper Ayr" on rear. Blue wax reamaining from seal.	H195 W306	7	Irregular	Horizontal		JB				127_WM_ToJohnTennant22Dec1788 (3) 127_WM_ToJohnTennant22Dec1788 (4)	127_WM_ToJohnTennant22Dec1788 (1) 127_WM_ToJohnTennant22Dec1788 (2)	"Burns to John Tennant, Esq., dated Ellisland, 22 December 1788. The letter is full of praise for a cask of whisky from Tennant's distillery at Glenconner […]	Fergusson Roy Letters I notes "[Cunningham, 1834; corrected and completed by Wallace, 1896. Here collated with the original MS. in the City Museum, Edinburgh.]"	Letters 291 (2)
128	Writer’s Museum	Three Excise returns and Accompanying letter	1794, 1795, 1796	1796	LSH16/1-4/91	Excise														"Excise returns, Dumfries district, 25 May - 5 July, 1794; 5 January - 22 February, 1795; 5 January - 22 February, 1796. Each sheet is certified by Robert Burns: accompanying letter donating documents."	On permanent display in museum under glass. Could not access ms.
129	Writer’s Museum	Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Townfield, six o'clock morning, September 1787.	September 1787	1787	LSH671/92	Letter														Robert Burns to James Burness, writer, Montrose, dated Townfield, six o'clock morning, September 1787. A short note regretting his sudden and unexpectedly early departure from Montrose.	ON LOAN. Slides available.
130	Dumfries Museums	The Whistle	[October 1789]	[1789]	DUMFM:1935.69.2	Verse	Laid	Holograph copy of 'The Whistle', ink on paper, with letter of authenticity by son written on same paper and attached. Robert Burns attached to bottom. 3 pieces joined together, tear on fold of first part, multiple repairs. 1 postmark on ms, 1 on letter.	200W 480H				Pro Patria					130_DUM_The Whistle (8) 130_DUM_The Whistle (9) 130_DUM_The Whistle (10)	130_DUM_The Whistle (1) 130_DUM_The Whistle (2) 130_DUM_The Whistle (3) 130_DUM_The Whistle (4) 130_DUM_The Whistle (5) 130_DUM_The Whistle (6) 130_DUM_The Whistle (7)	CONTENTS Manuscript poem in the handwriting of Robert Burns. Written on both sides of two joined sheets, bearing the official Excise Stamp. Home ROBERT BURNS CENTRE, Panel:Ellisland H2 [his eldeste son]: 'This Copy of the Poet's celebrated Song "The Whistle" appears to have been the original Manuscript of His written on two separate pieces of paper and was never out of Friar's Carse House (where the Whistle was contended for on Friday Oct. 16, 1790 and won by Alex. Fergusson Esq. of Craigdarroch as related in the Ballad and the Song written) until it was sent to be framed. It is in the Poet's boldest hand and obviously written on two portions of a leaf from one of his Excise Books. / Robert Burns. Eldest of the Poet.'	Two pieces of paper with poem. Letter of authentication by Robert Burns, son of the poet, written on bottom of second sheet, then later joined, so that we now have 3 pieces joined at the bottom to form one long document, possibly for framing as mentioned in the accompanying note at the bottom. One of 2 copies of poem held by museum. Cf. 1965.610 MS date from Kinsley, who dates the song to 1789, and from Ferguson Roy edn, as it is mentioned directly in a letter to Riddell of 16 Oct 1789. The marginal note by the poet's son incorrectly dates the event commemorated by the song as 1790.	K272; Letters 365 (3)
131	Dumfries Museums	Excise return	6 April-24 May 1791	1791	DUMFM:1964.144.8	Excise	Laid	Excise return in Burns' handwriting on both sides, ink on paper. Two pieces of paper 206H, which join to form single sheet.	412H 330W		1"	Horizontal	Lion	R. Fleming				131_DUM_Excise Return (5) 131_DUM_Excise Return (6) 131_DUM_Excise Return (7) 131_DUM_Excise Return (8)	131_DUM_Excise Return (1) 131_DUM_Excise Return (2) 131_DUM_Excise Return (3) 131_DUM_Excise Return (4)	CONTENTS Excise return in Robert Burns' handwriting. Large sheet signed by the poet on both sides. On the front he has listed people, grouping them by trade. Home ROBERT BURNS CENTRE, Panel: A Scandal	Possible facsimile copy of MS in possession of Paisley Burns Club has identical writing within ledger lines on excise paper. Ms mounted on card. Contact: Frank Brown of Paisley for details of the other Excise document.
132	Dumfries Museums	Addressed envelope			DUMFM:0198.73	Other	Laid	Addressed envelope to "Mr. George Thomson Trustees Office Edin" in Burns handwriting, ink on paper. Note of authentication on rear.	125W 100H	[check]	1"	Vertical						132_DUM_Envelope (4)	132_DUM_Envelope (1) 132_DUM_Envelope (2) 132_DUM_Envelope (3)	CONTENTS Robert Burns manuscript fragment. Address panel cut from a letter Burns addressed to his publisher, George Thomson. With note of authentication. Home ROBERT BURNS CENTRE, Panel: Mill Street H2 [Thomson]: "That what is on the other side / is the handwriting of Robt Burns / is attested to by G. Thomson"
133	Dumfries Museums	Written in Friar's Carse Hermitage "Thou Whom Chance May Hither Lead"	[Late 1788]	[1788]	DUMFM:1935.69.1	Verse	Laid	Ms poem in Burns' handwriting, ink on both sides of paper. H2 on black ink on rear: "Printed in Works on Friar's Carse Hermitage". Signs of tape on one edge - possible prior mounting	190W 308H			Vertical		JB				133_DUM_Friar's Carse Hermitage (5) 133_DUM_Friar's Carse Hermitage (6)	133_DUM_Friar's Carse Hermitage (1) 133_DUM_Friar's Carse Hermitage (2) 133_DUM_Friar's Carse Hermitage (3) 133_DUM_Friar's Carse Hermitage (4)	CONTENTS Manuscript poem in the handwriting of Robert Burns. Written on both sides. Home ROBERT BURNS CENTRE, Panel: A Ruinous Affair	Date from Kinsley, who mentions the Dumfries MS.	K223 [A]
134	Dumfries Museums	Excise return	[c.1790]	[c.1790]	DUMFM:1964.144.11	Excise	Laid	Two leaves in Burns' hand from excise pocketbook. Ink on paper. Possibly joined at one point. Reasonably clear excise stamp plus a faded exhibition sticker added later.	240W 90H		1 1/16th&q	Vertical						134_DUM_Excise Return c1790 (6)	134_DUM_Excise Return c1790 (1) 134_DUM_Excise Return c1790 (2) 134_DUM_Excise Return c1790 (3) 134_DUM_Excise Return c1790 (4) 134_DUM_Excise Return c1790 (5)	CONTENTS Page from Robert Burns' Excise Survey book. Has columns ruled. Lists areas visited by Burns in the course of his work. Home ROBERT BURNS CENTRE, Panel: Ellisland	Catalogue lists one page 240x180mm; looks like two separate leaves with DUMFM:1964.144.11(a) and DUMFM:1964.144.11(b) added to account number on sheets themselves. Display sticker from Glasgow International Exhibition 1901.
135	Dumfries Museums	Burns's Autograph [Letter relating to Schoolmaster]	13th April 1792	1792	DUMFM:0198.25	Other	Laid	Ms letter with Burns' autograph, ink on paper. Single folded sheet	373W 210H		15/16"	Horizontal		R. Williams				135_DUM_Signature (6) 135_DUM_Signature (7)	135_DUM_Signature (1) 135_DUM_Signature (2) 135_DUM_Signature (3) 135_DUM_Signature (4) 135_DUM_Signature (5)	CONTENTS Manuscript letter of petition from a schoolmaster to the Magistrates of Dumfries. Signed by several parents of children in his care, including Burns. Home ROBERT BURNS CENTRE, Panel: Bank Street, Dumfries
136	Dumfries Museums	Silver Tassie [My bonny Mary] and lines written in Glenriddel [Friar's Carse] Hermitage	[7 December 1788]	[1788]	DUMFM:0198.349	Verse	Laid	2 ms holograph poems, ink on paper, across two sides of single sheet, later bound and displayed at the Glasgow International Exhibition 1901. Contains Burns's note about verse alteration in second verse: "I have made an alteration of the verses written in Glenriddel Hermitage : tell me which of them you like best".	230H 188W	[check]	1"	Horizontal	Lily and GR					136_DUM_Silver Tassie and Friar's Carse Hermitage (9) 136_DUM_Silver Tassie and Friar's Carse Hermitage (10)	136_DUM_Silver Tassie and Friar's Carse Hermitage (1) 136_DUM_Silver Tassie and Friar's Carse Hermitage (2) 136_DUM_Silver Tassie and Friar's Carse Hermitage (3) 136_DUM_Silver Tassie and Friar's Carse Hermitage (4) 136_DUM_Silver Tassie and Friar's C	CONTENTS Holograph manuscript poems written by Robert Burns. A single sheet written on both sides. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Case 3	On MS and missing first 4 verses of 'Bonny Mary' , Kinsley notes "Lines 1–4 of D (letter to Mrs. Dunlop, 7 December 1788) in the Library of Congress, Washington; the remainder at Dumfries" (Poems I). MS Date taken from this evidence.	K242; K223; Letters 290 (27)
137	Dumfries Museums	Letter to Alexander Fergusson	[October 1789]	[1789]	DUMFM:0198.345	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter, ink on single sheet of paper torn on left from larger piece. Sent from Globe Inn. Note of authentication on back in H2 initialed : "Mr Burns / October 1789. / A rare instance / of true benevolence / of mind. A.F. [Alexander Fergusson]"	198W 238H	10	15/16th	Horizontal	Lily						137_DUM_ToAlexFergussonOct1789 (1) 137_DUM_ToAlexFergussonOct1789 (2) 137_DUM_ToAlexFergussonOct1789 (3) 137_DUM_ToAlexFergussonOct1789 (4)	CONTENTS Holograph manuscript letter from Robert Burns to Alexander Fergusson asking him to assist in Robie Gordons' case.	Partial fleur de lis watermark. Very clean paper.	Letters 364
138	Dumfries Museums	Excise fragment			DUMFM:0198.346	Excise Fragment	Laid	Small fragment of excise document in Burns hand with a note by H2: "Handwriting of Burns [Syme]". Excise office stamp on one side.	125W 93H	4	1 1/8"	Vertical							138_DUM_Excise Fragment (1) 138_DUM_Excise Fragment (2) 138_DUM_Excise Fragment (3)	CONTENTS Manuscript fragment. Holograph Excise document by Robert Burns. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Case 3
139	Dumfries Museums	Excise account	Feb-Apr 1794	1794	DUMFM:1998.34	Excise	Laid	Large folded sheet excise paper with ledger lines on one side, Burns' autograph.		16	1"	Horizontal	Britannia	R. Reid & Co.				139_DUM_Excise Account (7) 139_DUM_Excise Account (8) 139_DUM_Excise Account (9)	139_DUM_Excise Account (1) 139_DUM_Excise Account (2) 139_DUM_Excise Account (3) 139_DUM_Excise Account (4) 139_DUM_Excise Account (5) 139_DUM_Excise Account (6)	CONTENTS Large folio sheet ruled in red. Holograph manuscript account signed by Burns, twice in full and once with initials. Home SAFE CUPBOARD, LIBRARY, Documents, Robert Burns, Box 1
140	Dumfries Museums	Letter to Mrs McMurdo at Drumlanrig	2 May 1789	1789	DUMFM:1936.2.2	Letter	?	Water damaged paper, Burns' hand, ink faded, with accompanyng typed transcription:** Letter has been stuck to backing paper with "R. Wise 1827" countermark and heart-shaped watermark.	210W 253H	*	*	*	GR					140_DUM_ToMrsMcMurdo2May1789 (4) 140_DUM_ToMrsMcMurdo2May1789 (5) 140_DUM_ToMrsMcMurdo2May1789 (6) 140_DUM_ToMrsMcMurdo2May1789 (7)	140_DUM_ToMrsMcMurdo2May1789 (1) 140_DUM_ToMrsMcMurdo2May1789 (2) 140_DUM_ToMrsMcMurdo2May1789 (3)	CONTENTS Robert Burns holograph manuscript letter. One sheet, written from Ellisland to Mrs McMurdo at Drumlanrig. Home SAFE CUPBOARD, LIBRARY, Documents, Robert Burns, Box 1 **"This draft letter has clearly suffered badly from damp in early times, the printed text of which the above is a copy clearly being seventy or eighty years old"	* Two sets of chain lines visible due to 19thC backing paper. See Fergusson Roy edn of Letters for details on MS: "[Cunningham. 1834. MS. sold at Henkels', Philadelphia, 5 Dec. 1898, but not traced further. Present text collated with the original MS. of Burns's draft copy in the Observatory Museum, Dumfries. The MS. is badly water-stained, and bracketed portions are from Cunningham. The last sentence and the bracketed part of the ending are not present in the draft. The poem probably was To Mr McMurdo, with a Pound of Lundiefoot Snuff. See Poems, 261.]"	Letters 334
141	Dumfries Museums	[Scots] Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries On New Year’s Day Evening, 1790.	[1790]	[1790]	DUMFM:1983.67.62	Verse	Laid	Ms verse, ink on paper, Burns' hand across both sides of single sheet. H2 on rear ("Poetical address probably spoken at Dumfries theatre 1793.4") and possibly H3 confirming info provided by H2 ( 'it was')	195W 323H	8	1"	Vertical		Band	Somerset	England		141_DUM_Prologue Spoken at Theatre in Dumfries (6) 141_DUM_Prologue Spoken at Theatre in Dumfries (7)	141_DUM_Prologue Spoken at Theatre in Dumfries (1) 141_DUM_Prologue Spoken at Theatre in Dumfries (2) 141_DUM_Prologue Spoken at Theatre in Dumfries (3) 141_DUM_Prologue Spoken at Theatre in Dumfries (4) 141_DUM_Prologue Spoken at Theatre in Dumfries	CONTENTS Robert Burns holograph manuscript. One large sheet, written on both sides. Home SAFE CUPBOARD, LIBRARY, Documents, Robert Burns, Box 1	Sticker attached for Fine Art Hist and Arch G.I.E [Glasgow International Exhibition] 1901 Date of MS collated with Kinsley. See Poems II: "Scots Prologue. Text from Stewart, 1802 (pp. 253-4), collated with the Lochryan MS (Loch; Letter to Mrs. Dunlop, March 1790) and Cromek, Reliques (pp. 409-11) Title Mrs. Loch:Mr. Stewart Cromek Spoken at the Theatre] om. Loch Cromek. Loch adds March 3d 1790 315. In March 1790 Burns wrote to Mrs. Dunlop: 'I have made a very considerable acquisition in the acquaintance of a Mr. Sutherland, Manager of a company of Comedians at present in Dumfries.—The following is a Prologue I made for his wife, Mrs Sutherland's benefitnight.—You are to understand that he is getting a new Theatre built here, by subscription' (Letter 396; the Lochryan MS). Another copy was sent to Provost Staig of Dumfries on 1 March, with a note that it had been written at Sutherland's request. As 'there is a dark stroke of Politics in the belly of the Piece', Burns asked Staig to identify 'any Treason, or words of treasonable construction, or any Fama clamosa or Scandalum magnatum' (Letter 394). The anxiety over a merely patriotic poem was obviously Sutherland's, as Burns's tone suggests. The Prologue is no longer with the letter to Staig; but it is probably represented by Cromek's text, which looks like a draft and contains the 'dark stroke of Politics' in 11. 29–34."	K315; Letters 394 and 396 (46); Shorter 1971, 60
142	Dumfries Museums	The Whistle	[1789]	[1789]	DUMFM:1965.610	Verse	Laid	Ms verse on two separate sheets, ink on paper, with prose history by Burns on rear of second sheet, and H2 [Grierson] with note of Provenance about receiving poem from Gilbert Burns 1815	203W 255H	10	1"	Horizontal						142_DUM_The Whistle (6) 142_DUM_The Whistle (7)	142_DUM_The Whistle (1) 142_DUM_The Whistle (2) 142_DUM_The Whistle (3) 142_DUM_The Whistle (4) 142_DUM_The Whistle (5) 142_DUM_The Whistle (8)	CONTENTS Robert Burns holograph manuscript. Two sheets, written on both sides. Home SAFE CUPBOARD, LIBRARY, Documents, Robert Burns, Box 1	Second of 2 copies of Whistle held by Museum. Cf. 1935.69.2	K272
143	Dumfries Museums	Letter to Mr Williams	16 May 1791	1791	DUMFM:1964.144.1	Letter Fragment	Laid	Ms fragment of a note, Burns' autograph, to Mr Williams Irvine 16th May 1791. Ink smudged in a number of places. Address at bottom of note	203W 137H	7	1 1/16th&q	Vertical						143_DUM_ToMrWilliams16May1791 (4)	143_DUM_ToMrWilliams16May1791 (1) 143_DUM_ToMrWilliams16May1791 (2) 143_DUM_ToMrWilliams16May1791 (3)	CONTENTS Robert Burns holograph manuscript fragment inscribed to Mr Williams, dated Irvine, 16th May 1791. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 1
144	Dumfries Museums	Notice of fine to Robert Moore, Dumfries	26 October 1789	1789	DUMFM:1936.2.3	Excise Fragment	Laid	Fragment in Burns' hand, ink on paper. Address and excise office stamp on rear.	208W 66H	8	1"	Vertical	[Lion?]					144_DUM_Excise Notice OCt 1789 (3)	144_DUM_Excise Notice OCt 1789 (1) 144_DUM_Excise Notice OCt 1789 (2)	CONTENTS Robert Burns holograph manuscript. A notice of fine to Robert Moore, Dumfries, dated 26th October 1789 with a subsequent receipt for payment on the reverse. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 1	Partial watermark - possibly bottom of Lion
145	Dumfries Museums	Fragment [Epistle to Robert Graham Esq: of Fintry on the Election ...]	[1790]	[1790]	DUMFM:1970.120	Verse Epistle Fragment	Laid	Holograph verse fragment, written on both sides.	198W 68H	8	1"	Vertical						145_DUM_Fragment 'Election Ballad' (4)	145_DUM_Fragment 'Election Ballad' (1) 145_DUM_Fragment 'Election Ballad' (2) 145_DUM_Fragment 'Election Ballad' (3)	CONTENTS Robert Burns' holograph manuscript fragment. Written on both sides. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 1	3 - in pencil on top right. Could have been price. Came to Museum on its own. See Kinsley's note on the fragment, Poems II: "Epistle to Robt. Graham Esq: of Fintry. Text from the Glenriddell MS (Glen; pp.81-86), collated with the Alloway MS (Al; Sketch, 50 lines), the Fintry MS (sent to Graham, dated Ellisland 10th. June 1790), the Afton Lodge MS (ff. 23v-27r), the Dumfries MS (Dum; ll. 1-60 only, apparently part of the MS belonging to Mrs Mc-Murdo and used by Allan Cunningham), Dewar's transcript of a holograph fragment sold at Sotheby's on 13 November 1934 (ll. 61-67 and 94-100; apparently part of MS Dum), and Cunningham, Hi. 155-60 (Curi). "	K318
146	Dumfries Museums	Letter to John Syme	[May? 1795]	[1795]	DUMFM:1964.144.2	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter to John Syme, Stamp Office, ink on single folded sheet, address and remains of wax seal on rear. Dated 'Monday eve' but no month or year.	368W 223H	10	7/8"	Horizontal		Edmeads & Pine	Ivy Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		146_DUM_ToJohnSyme1795 (6) 146_DUM_ToJohnSyme1795 (7)	146_DUM_ToJohnSyme1795 (1) 146_DUM_ToJohnSyme1795 (2) 146_DUM_ToJohnSyme1795 (3) 146_DUM_ToJohnSyme1795 (4) 146_DUM_ToJohnSyme1795 (5)	CONTENTS Holograph letter from Robert Burns to his friend, John Syme. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 1	See Fergusson Roy Letters II: "Currie, 1800. Here collated with the original MS. in the Burns House, Dumfries."	Letters 669 (2); Shorter 1971, 60
147	Dumfries Museums	Excise permit	30 November 1792	1792	DUMFM:1965.609	Excise	Laid	Excise permit with Burns autograph, ink on preprinted paper with Excise Office countermark. H2 [Grierson] on rear note of provenance: "Received this from Mr Thomas Harkness grandson of the party named [in the permit] 31 May 1866. T.B.Grierson"	166W 110H	6	1"	Vertical		Excise Office					147_DUM_Excise Permit (1) 147_DUM_Excise Permit (2) 147_DUM_Excise Permit (3) 147_DUM_Excise Permit (4)	CONTENTS Excise permit, signed by Robert Burns. Allows Thomas Harkness of Mitchelslack, Dumfries to receive one cask of rum (10 gallons) from John Hutton, Dumfries. Signed on reverse by Dr T B Grierson. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 1
148	Dumfries Museums	Holograph letter fragment from Burns to John McMurdo at Drumlanrig	[Dec 1793]	[1793]	DUMFM:1964.144.3	Letter Fragment	Laid	Holgraph fragment to accompany a ballad sent to McMurdo at Thornhill with address on rear of fragment. Repair at bottom of fragment. Number 18 written in H2 on rear.	75H 137W	3	15/16"	Horizontal	[Post?]						148_DUM_FragmentToJohnMcMurdo1793 (1) 148_DUM_FragmentToJohnMcMurdo1793 (2) 148_DUM_FragmentToJohnMcMurdo1793 (3)	CONTENTS Letter circa December 1793 Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Extra Panel 1a	Partial watermark with possible side of post horn. Date from Fergusson Roy edn. of Letters II, in which the eds hadn't traced the MS: "Wallace, 1896. Partly collated by Ferguson, 1931, with the original MS., then privately owned. MS. not traced further."	Letters 607 (8)
149	Dumfries Museums	A Highland Welcome ["Wrote on the window of an Inn in the Highlands"]	[c1787-1792]	[c.1787-1792]	DUMFM:1964.144.12	Verse	Laid	Ink on paper, holograph transcription of Burns window poem on one side only, with Thomson's (H2) note of authentication below. * See previous recorded information.	188W 128H	5	1"	Horizontal	Post					149_DUM_A Highland Welcome (3) 149_DUM_A Highland Welcome (4)	149_DUM_A Highland Welcome (1) 149_DUM_A Highland Welcome (2)	CONTENTS Holograph manuscript poem by Robert Burns. Four lines of verse with a statement of authentication by George Thomson, 12th November 1829 *H2 (Thomson): "I attest that the above is the veritable hand writing of Robert Burns. G. Thomson Edinburgh 12 Nov.r 1829"	Kinsley edn not collated with this MS: "Text from Currie, iv. 405, collated with the Edinburgh Evening Courant, 2 July 1792 (headed Written at Dalnacardoch in the Highlands, and signed' R.B.)"	K173
150	Dumfries Museums	Letter to William Stewart	21 March 1788	1788	DUMFM:1983.67.69	Letter	Laid	Holograph MS in Burns hand. MS burnt in places andd fragile.	191W 227H	[Check]	7/8"	Horizontal	Pro Patria					150_DUM_ToWmStewart21Mar1788 (5) 150_DUM_ToWmStewart21Mar1788 (6)	150_DUM_ToWmStewart21Mar1788 (1) 150_DUM_ToWmStewart21Mar1788 (2) 150_DUM_ToWmStewart21Mar1788 (3) 150_DUM_ToWmStewart21Mar1788 (4)	CONTENTS Holograph manuscript letter from Robert Burns to William Stewart. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Extra Panel 1a	1788 Quire See Fergusson Roy Letters I: "Burns Chronicle, 1927. Here collated with the original MS. in the Burns House, Dumfries"	Letters 228A (1)
151	Dumfries Museums	Holy Willie's Prayer (a) [Part 1 of 2]	[1784-85?]	[1784-85?]	DUMF 2006.1	Verse	Laid	Holograph fragment of verse on both sides of single sheet, poet's argument on face, dark ink on paper. Clear royal cipher watermark. Treated as part of a set of 2 by Museum alongside an earlier acquisition.	309H 187W	7	1"	Vertical	GR					151_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (a) (4) 151_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (a) (5)	151_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (a) (1) 151_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (a) (2) 151_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (a) (3)	CONTENTS Holograph manuscript of part of Burn's poem called "Holy Willy's Prayer". One large sheet written on both sides. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 3	Part of 2: cf. 1936.2.4. and next entry in database. Date from Kinsley Poems I. Kinsley also gives further details of MS: "Holy Willie's Prayer. Text from the Glenriddell MS (Glen; pp. 21-25), collated with MSS Kilmarnock (Kil), Alloway (Al), Esty (ll. 1-46 only), the Dumfries MS (Dum; ll. 47-102, completing Esty), Dewar's transcript of a MS endorsed … given me by Lord Glencairn, at Minto, 26 August, 1787 (D; offered for sale at Sotheby's, 30 June 1938), the Don MS (endorsed Enclosed in letter to Earl of Glencairn I August 1788), and Stewart (1801, pp. 41-45; 1802, pp. 236-9). Epigraph not in Stewart; Argument in Glen, Esty and D only. Esty has Gavin Hamilton was what the world calls, a good, moral man, but a stranger to 'Effectual Calling' or 'the Newbirth;' so was very properly summonsed before the kirk session by the Rev? M? Will? Auld, a worthy trumpeter of the Lord; for his irregularities of walk and conversation.—The affair went to the Presbytry, where the uncircumcised Philistines overcame the people of G—; and the Priest of the Lord, and Holy Willy, the Lord's servant, were put to shame and derided by the children of Belial.—Holy Willy had been called to be Presbytry Elder; and his righteous Spirit being grieved at the triumph of the wicked ones, he prayed unto the Lord saying— D has The occasion of this Prayer was a personal pique with which Mr Auld, the Clergyman of the place, was pleased to honor ? Gavin Hamilton, a gentleman of the first worth in the country.—The quarrel ran so high that M? Hamilton was"	K53
152	Dumfries Museums	Holy Willie's Prayer (b) [2nd of 2]*	[1784-85?]	[1784-85?]	DUMF 1936.2.4	Verse	Laid	Hologaph poem and remainder to poem started in 2006.1. Author's note re. Gavin Hamilton on rear. Paper darkened in comparison to 2006.1 due to display.	309H 186W	8	1"	Vertical	Georgian Arms					152_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (b) (4) 152_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (b) (5)	152_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (b) (1) 152_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (b) (2) 152_DUM_Holy Willie's Prayer (b) (3)	CONTENTS Holograph manuscript of part of Burn's poem called "Holy Willy's Prayer". One large sheet written on both sides. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 3	*2 of 2. To go with 2006.1 [previous entry].	K53
153	Dumfries Museums	Letter to Samuel Clark jr	[1794]	[1794]	DUMFM:1936.1	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, letter on one side of single sheet. Address on rear to S. Clarke Jr, winess, Dumfries, along with H2 "R Burns".	164W 200H	8	1"	Horizontal		Taylor				153_DUM_ToSamuelClarkJr (4) 153_DUM_ToSamuelClarkJr (5)	153_DUM_ToSamuelClarkJr (1) 153_DUM_ToSamuelClarkJr (2) 153_DUM_ToSamuelClarkJr (3)	CONTENTS Holograph letter from Robert Burns to Samuel Clark junior, Dumfries. Written on one side, with address on the other. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 2	Cf. Ferguson Roy Letters II: "Waddell, 1867. Here collated with the original MS. in the Observatory Museum, Dumfries."	Letters 618 (1)
154	Dumfries Museums	Letter [to Patrick Miller] and verse "Seeing a Wounded Hare"	21 June 1789	1789	DUMFM:1935.69.4	Letter Verse	Laid	Holograph letter/verse, single folded sheet, ink on paper. Address and possibly autograph missing from final leaf, with major repair to document. H2 in pencil with letter date on rear of first page. H3[?] in pencil on rear above address with word 'moral'.	375W 225H			Horizontal	Post					154_DUM_Seeing a Wounded Hare (6) 154_DUM_Seeing a Wounded Hare (7) 154_DUM_Seeing a Wounded Hare (8)	154_DUM_Seeing a Wounded Hare (1) 154_DUM_Seeing a Wounded Hare (2) 154_DUM_Seeing a Wounded Hare (3) 154_DUM_Seeing a Wounded Hare (4) 154_DUM_Seeing a Wounded Hare (5)	CONTENTS Holograph letter and draft poem of Robert Burns. To his landlord, Patrick Miller, Dalswinton. Written on both sides of a large folded sheet. Home BURNS HOUSE, Parlour, Panel 2	Repaired with fine laid paper [possibly later] with a similar postmark. Cf. Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Allen, 1927. Here collated with the original MS. in the Dumfries Observatory Museum. Three-fourths of the second page of the letter have been torn away: it now contains nothing except the final stanza of the poem; the signature and the remainder of the letter, if any, are lost."	Letters 349 (6); K259
155	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from Burns to Robert Graham Esq	31 December [1792]	[1792]	(Box D1 Acc 13038) 3	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter. Ink on paper, single folded sheet. Sealed in plastic coating for conservation. Letter locking with red wax seal. Dumfires poststamp. H2, ink on paper, adding date. H3 confriming that date.	254H 403W*	10	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR	**				155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (11) 155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (12) 155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (13)	155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (1) 155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (2) 155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (3) 155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (4) 155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (5) 155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (6) 155_BBM_ToRobGraham31Dec1792 (7) 155_BBM_ToRobGrah		* Approx measurement of width due to conservation. **Possibly same quire as next db entry, letter to Graham 5 Jan 1793.	Letters 528 (11)
156	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to [Robert Graham of] Fintry 5 Jan 1793	5 Jan 1793	1793	3.6098ab	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, across two folded sheets (a/b). In plastic cover for conservation. Inside of second sheet (b) markedly cleaner than rest. H2 [Currie?] ink on rear.	255H 399W	10	26.5mm	Horizontal	Post and GR	[I?] Taylor		[England]		156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (9) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (10) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (11) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (12)	156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (1) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (2) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (3) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (4) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (5) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (6) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (7) 156_BBM_ToFintry5Jan1793 (8)		cf. Ferguson Roy Letters II: "Chambers, 1856. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. In reply to a letter from Graham of 3 Jan. Graham replied 10 Jan.]"	Letters 530 (12)
157	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to [Robert Graham of] Fintry 7 Jan 1794*	[7 Jan 1794]	[1794]	3.6100	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folded sheet. In plastic cover for conservation. Fragile. H2 with date on first page.	255H 400W	10	1"	Horizontal		E&P	Ivy Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		157_BBM_ToFintry7Jan1794 (7) 157_BBM_ToFintry7Jan1794 (8)	157_BBM_ToFintry7Jan1794 (1) 157_BBM_ToFintry7Jan1794 (2) 157_BBM_ToFintry7Jan1794 (3) 157_BBM_ToFintry7Jan1794 (4) 157_BBM_ToFintry7Jan1794 (5) 157_BBM_ToFintry7Jan1794 (6)		*Date supplied by H2 and followed by Ferguson Roy Letters II, which notes: "Chambers, 1856. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The date has been added in another hand, and is probably the date of receipt of the letter. A footnote which reads: 'John M'Quaker, 43 years of age, 7 of a family, 13 years in the service, 5 years in present district.—RB.' is not present in the MS. nor was it printed in Chambers. It apparently first appeared in Douglas, 1877, without claim that it was by Burns; when the same footnote was published in Gebbie, 1886, the initials were added. It may have been picked up from an Excise document."	Letters 610 (14); Shorter 1957, p.296 for example of Countermark; Shorter 1971, p.60 for Mill.
158	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Mrs Graham of Fintry 10 June 1790	10 June 1790	1790	3.6101	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter from Elliesland addressed to Mrs Graham of Fintry. Ink on paper, single folio sheet. Finer writing than usual for Burns. Conserved in plastic. H2 [Currie?] on rear.	230H 372W		1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					158_BBM_ToMrsGrahamFintry10Jun1790 (9) 158_BBM_ToMrsGrahamFintry10Jun1790 (10)	158_BBM_ToMrsGrahamFintry10Jun1790 (1) 158_BBM_ToMrsGrahamFintry10Jun1790 (2) 158_BBM_ToMrsGrahamFintry10Jun1790 (3) 158_BBM_ToMrsGrahamFintry10Jun1790 (4) 158_BBM_ToMrsGrahamFintry10Jun1790 (5) 158_BBM_ToMrsGrahamFintry10Jun1790 (6) 158_BBM_ToMrsGr		Difficult to measure width due to conservation Cf. Ferguson Roy Letters II: "Currie, 1800; corrected by Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Mrs. Graham replied on 5 July"	Letters 402 (1)
159	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Creech	[13 May 1787]	[1787]	3.6042	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folded sheet. Addressed to Creech in London. Wax seal and related tear. Repairs. H2 ink with date. H3 pencil foilio number and signs of previous cataloguing. Signs of being mounted or bound in vol at some point.	230H 373W	9		Horizontal	Post and GR					159_BBM_ToCreech (11) 159_BBM_ToCreech (12)	159_BBM_ToCreech (1) 159_BBM_ToCreech (2) 159_BBM_ToCreech (3) 159_BBM_ToCreech (4) 159_BBM_ToCreech (5) 159_BBM_ToCreech (6) 159_BBM_ToCreech (7) 159_BBM_ToCreech (8) 159_BBM_ToCreech (9) 159_BBM_ToCreech (10)	H2: "Robt Burns Selkirk May 1798 with a poem. W.C. went to London with Mr Tawse the end of April or beginning of May 1787"	Box D2 (D2 Acc. 13038). Date from MS and from Fergusson Roy Letters I, which notes: "[Cromek, 1808. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The date is taken from the MS. of the poem, not from the letter.]"	Letters 106 (1)
160	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Creech, Glasgow 24 June 1787	24 June 1787	1787	3.6043	Letter	Laid	Autograph note, ink on single side of fragment of paper, mounted on another sheet. Addressed to Creech in Edin from Glasgow. H2 barely discernible in pencil on bottom right giving background details on Creech's publication of the Edinburgh Edition of the Poems.	157H 200W*		23mm and 2	Horizontal		IV	Hattem, Guelderland	Holland		160_BBM_ToCreech24Jun1787 (6) 160_BBM_ToCreech24Jun1787 (7) 160_BBM_ToCreech24Jun1787 (8)	160_BBM_ToCreech24Jun1787 (1) 160_BBM_ToCreech24Jun1787 (2) 160_BBM_ToCreech24Jun1787 (3) 160_BBM_ToCreech24Jun1787 (4) 160_BBM_ToCreech24Jun1787 (5)	H2: " Mr Creech was publisher of the Edin Edn[?] [&? Xxxxxxx xx xxx 500 xxxxxx]"	*Irregular sizes due to torn MS cf. Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Burns Chronicle, 1927. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway."	Letters 115 (2)
161	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Thomas Orr	7 Sep [1782]	[1782]	3.6031	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on single sheet of paper, addressed from Lochlee to Orr care of William Orr. Signs of wax seal and letter locking. Ms torn down right hand side.	301H 187W*	7	1"	Vertical	Georgian Arms					161_BBM_ToThomasOrr (7) 161_BBM_ToThomasOrr (8)	161_BBM_ToThomasOrr (1) 161_BBM_ToThomasOrr (2) 161_BBM_ToThomasOrr (3) 161_BBM_ToThomasOrr (4) 161_BBM_ToThomasOrr (5) 161_BBM_ToThomasOrr (6)		* Irregular sides Box D3 (D3. Acc 13038) cf. Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Revd. Charles Rogers: The Book of Robert Burns (Edinburgh, 1889), where a facsimile also appears. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway."	Letters 10 (1)
162	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Glencairn, 13 Jan 1787	13 Jan 1787	1787	3.6036	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single folio sheet, sent from Lawnmarket and addressed to Glencairn at Coates on rear. Tear where seal would have locked letter. H2 in ink confirms details of letter. Fragment missing and ms repaired with backing paper.	230H 372W	9	26mm	Horizontal		L. PAINE	Chartham Mill, Kent	England		162_BBM_ToGlencairn13Jan1787 (6) 162_BBM_ToGlencairn13Jan1787 (7)	162_BBM_ToGlencairn13Jan1787 (1) 162_BBM_ToGlencairn13Jan1787 (2) 162_BBM_ToGlencairn13Jan1787 (3) 162_BBM_ToGlencairn13Jan1787 (4) 162_BBM_ToGlencairn13Jan1787 (5)		Partial countermark due to tear in ms. Cf. Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Currie, 1800. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The letter is transcribed, with the usual minor variations, in the Glenriddell MS."	Letters 75 (1); Shorter 1957, p.198 for Leeds Paine's Mill
163	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to James Candlish 21 March 1787	21 March 1787	1787	3.6039	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter from Burns in Edin to Candlish, Student of Physic, Glasgow College. Ink on paper. Single sheet. Repair on edge.	230H 184W	10	24mm	Horizontal	Post					163_BBM_ToCandlish21Mar1787 (4) 163_BBM_ToCandlish21Mar1787 (5)	163_BBM_ToCandlish21Mar1787 (1) 163_BBM_ToCandlish21Mar1787 (2) 163_BBM_ToCandlish21Mar1787 (3)		cf. Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Cromek, 1808. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Address in another hand."	Letters 89 (1)
164	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Hugh Blair	[4 May 1787]	[1787]	3.6040	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter to Hugh Blair, ink on both sides of single sheet of paper, conserved in plastic cover. H2, ink, describing letter.	186W 230H	9	27mm	Horizontal	Post					164_BBM_ToHughBlair (4) 164_BBM_ToHughBlair (5)	164_BBM_ToHughBlair (1) 164_BBM_ToHughBlair (2) 164_BBM_ToHughBlair (3)		See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "[Currie, 1800. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Blair answered the same day.]"	Letters 101
165	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Johnson	4 May 1787	1787	3.6041	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, single sheet. Sent from Lawn Market Friday Morn. H2 ink and H3 pencil state that the letter is sent to James Johnson Editor of the Scots Musical Museum.	162W 200H	8	25mm	Horizontal	Britannia					165_BBM_ToJamesJohnson (6) 165_BBM_ToJamesJohnson (7)	165_BBM_ToJamesJohnson (1) 165_BBM_ToJamesJohnson (2) 165_BBM_ToJamesJohnson (3) 165_BBM_ToJamesJohnson (4) 165_BBM_ToJamesJohnson (5)	H2 [Currie?], Ink: Letter to- [pencil:] [?Johnston?] Editor of the Scot[s] Musical Museum'	See Ferguson Roy Letters I for details on MS: "Hogg & Motherwell, 1834. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The MS. must at one time have belonged to Prince Albert, who mistakenly thought that the letter was to Creech. His endorsement reads: 'Robert Burns, Der berühmte schottische Dichter. Brief an den Buchhändler Creech. A'."	Letters, 104 (1); http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/transcript/3402
166	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to James Hay, 6 Nov 1787	6 Nov 1787	1787	3.6049	Letter	Laid	Autograph Letter, ink on paper, single folded sheet, addressed to James Hay Gordon castle on rear. Remains of wax seal. H2 in ink confirms author and date. Slight signs of damp and repair on one corner.	228H 375W	9	1"	Horizontal		J. Buttanshaw	Hamptons Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (9) 166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (10)	166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (1) 166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (2) 166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (3) 166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (4) 166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (5) 166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (6) 166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (7) 166_BBM_ToJamesHay6Nov1787 (8)		See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Cunningham, 1834. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway."	Letters 149 (2); Shorter 1971, 60, 102
167	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Miss Mabane	[1 December 1787]	[1787]	3.6050	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper. Single folded sheet. Fine handwriting. Addressed Satur noon No2 St James Sqr Newtown.	194H 251W	10	1"	Vertical		S L[ay?]	[Kent?]	[England?]		167_BBM_ToMissMabane (4) 167_BBM_ToMissMabane (5)	167_BBM_ToMissMabane (1) 167_BBM_ToMissMabane (2) 167_BBM_ToMissMabane (3)		Thought written 1 Dec 1787. Cf. Fergusson Roy Letters I: "Stewart, 1802. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The MS. is torn, and bracketed words are supplied from Stewart. Miss Mabane's answer was dated Monday, probably 3 Dec." Partial countermark.	Letters 154; See Shorter 1957, p.323 for example of Lay Countermark.
168	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter [copy] to Mr Creech 24 Jan 1788	24 Jan 1788	1788	3.6051	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter, ink on paper, one side of single sheet. H2 on rear states it is a copy to Mr Creech Jan 24th 1788.	180W 300H	7	1"	Vertical		Band	Somerset	England		168_BBM_ToWmCreech24Jan1788 (5) 168_BBM_ToWmCreech24Jan1788 (6)	168_BBM_ToWmCreech24Jan1788 (1) 168_BBM_ToWmCreech24Jan1788 (2) 168_BBM_ToWmCreech24Jan1788 (3) 168_BBM_ToWmCreech24Jan1788 (4)		See Fergusson Roy Letters I: "Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America, 1967, from Burns's unsigned draft copy. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway"	Letters 185A (3); Shorter 1971, 60
169	Burns Birthplace Museum	Elegy on the death of Captain Matthew Henderson	[1790]	[1790]	3.6102	Verse	Laid	Poetic elegy, ink on paper, across all sides of one folded sheet and one half-sheet. Same paper for both sheets. Conserved in plastic cover.	256H 200W [1/2 sheet	10	1"	Horizontal		LVG	Egmond a/d Hoef, North Holland	Holland		169_BBM_Elegy on Death of Cptn Matthew Henderson (7) 169_BBM_Elegy on Death of Cptn Matthew Henderson (8) 169_BBM_Elegy on Death of Cptn Matthew Henderson (9)	169_BBM_Elegy on Death of Cptn Matthew Henderson (1) 169_BBM_Elegy on Death of Cptn Matthew Henderson (2) 169_BBM_Elegy on Death of Cptn Matthew Henderson (3) 169_BBM_Elegy on Death of Cptn Matthew Henderson (4) 169_BBM_Elegy on Death of Cptn Matthew		See RBBM Webpage http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/object_detail/3.6102 on ms composition: "This is a manuscript of the poem Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson, A Gentleman who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from Almighty God! It was probably written in 1790. The composition of the Elegy was accomplished in two stages. As Burns wrote to his friend Robert Cleghorn on 23rd July, 'At the time of his death I composed an elegiac stanza or two, as he was a man I much regarded; but something came in my way so that the design of an Elegy to his memory gave up. Meeting with the fragment the other day among some of old waste papers I tried to finish the Piece, and have this moment put the last hand to it.' Henderson was a well known figure in Edinburgh. Burns met him while they both stayed at lodgings in St James Square and they subsequently struck up a friendship. Henderson later died in 1788."	<http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/object_detail/3.6102> [accessed 25 August 2017]; K239
170	Burns Birthplace Museum	Mary Queen of Scot's Lament	[June? 1790]	[1790]	3.6103	Verse	Laid	Holograph verse, ink, across 3 sides of folded sheet. Possibly 2 sheets stuck together.	230H 370W	9	1"	Horizontal		I. Taylor	Basted Mill, Kent	England		170_BBM_Mary Queen of Scots Lament (4) 170_BBM_Mary Queen of Scots Lament (5)	170_BBM_Mary Queen of Scots Lament (1) 170_BBM_Mary Queen of Scots Lament (2) 170_BBM_Mary Queen of Scots Lament (3)		Date suggested by RBBM MS Webpage. Cf. Kinsley.	K316; <http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/object_detail/3.6103> [accessed 25 Aug 2017]
171	Burns Birthplace Museum	Ode Sacred to the memory of Mrs O[swald] of A[uchincruive]	[1789]*	[1789]	3.6104	Verse	Laid	Verse ode, ink on both sides of single sheet. Conserved in clear cover.	299H 184W	7	1"	Vertical		T.R.				171_BBM_Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs O (5) 171_BBM_Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs O (6)	171_BBM_Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs O (1) 171_BBM_Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs O (2) 171_BBM_Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs O (3) 171_BBM_Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs O (4)		*Kinsley puts date of composition at 1788. RBBM Records date of MS as 1789.	K243; <http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/object_detail/3.6104> [accessed 25 Aug 2017]
172	Burns Birthplace Museum	On Captain Grose's Present Peregrinations	[1789]	[1789]	3.6105	Verse	Laid	Holograph verse, ink on both sides of single sheet of paper. Conserved in clear cover.		8	1"	Vertical	Britannia					172_BBM_On Captain Grose's Present Peregrinations (5) 172_BBM_On Captain Grose's Present Peregrinations (6)	172_BBM_On Captain Grose's Present Peregrinations (1) 172_BBM_On Captain Grose's Present Peregrinations (2) 172_BBM_On Captain Grose's Present Peregrinations (3) 172_BBM_On Captain Grose's Present Peregrinations (4)			K275
173	Burns Birthplace Museum	Fragment of a letter to John Ballantine, 24 Feb 1787	[24 February 1787]	[1787]	3.6169	Letter Fragment	Laid	Fragment of a note on Burns having an engraving of his likeness. Ink on paper, stuck to backing with notes on Provenance in pencil H2 and ink H3.	186W 52H (irregular)		1"	Horizontal	Post					173_BBM_FragToJohnBallantine24Feb1787 (2)	173_BBM_FragToJohnBallantine24Feb1787 (1)	H2: "Robert Burns / Given to me by his / Brother Gilbert Burns" H3: "Part of Letter to John Ballantine / 24th February 1787 / Bought July 1976"	For details on letter and MS, see Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Cromek, 1808. The bracketed portions are from Cromek. The unbracketed portion of the letter is collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. This fragment is docketed in another hand: 'Robert Burns Given to me by his brother Gilbert Burns.'"	Letters 86 (7)
174	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to William Niven, 3 Nov 1780	3 Nov 1780	1780	3.6028	Letter	Laid	Early autograph letter, ink on paper, single folded sheet. Letter in poor condition with handwriting barely legible. Remains of wax seal visible.	301W 188H	8	1"	Horizontal	Georgian Arms					174_BBM_ToWmNiven3Nov1780 (5) 174_BBM_ToWmNiven3Nov1780 (6)	174_BBM_ToWmNiven3Nov1780 (1) 174_BBM_ToWmNiven3Nov1780 (2) 174_BBM_ToWmNiven3Nov1780 (3) 174_BBM_ToWmNiven3Nov1780 (4)		Box: (D4 Acc 13038) See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Ferguson, 1931; from the text published in the Glasgow Herald, 25 July 1929. Here collated with the original MS, in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway."	Letters 2 (2)
175	Burns Birthplace Museum	Fragments of early letters [to Wm Niven 29 Jul 1780]	29 July 1780	1780	3.6029	Letter Fragment	Laid	Two fragments in Burns' early hand, ink on paper. Irregular sized damged fragments.	193W 90H (a) 119W 23		1"			SP[*?]		England		175_BBM_Fragments Early Letters 29 July 1780 (4)	175_BBM_Fragments Early Letters 29 July 1780 (1) 175_BBM_Fragments Early Letters 29 July 1780 (2) 175_BBM_Fragments Early Letters 29 July 1780 (3)		For details on MS, see Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Ferguson, 1931; first fully published in the Burns Chronicle, 1930. The closing portion was published in the Glasgow Herald, 25 July 1929. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The first leaf is mutilated; each of the marks of omission in the first portion of the text represents the loss of about one-third of a line of MS. In a few instances where the construction and thought appear obvious, conjectural restorations have been made in brackets. a facsimile appeared in Ferguson, 1931."	Letters 1 (1); Shorter 1957, index for list of Papermakers starting with 'SP'; 1971, 69, 74, for Spicer.
176	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter from RB to Clarinda 12 Dec 1787	12 Dec 1787	1787	3.6361	Letter	Laid	Holograph letter to McLehose, ink on paper, one side only. H2 note on Provenance	260W 198H	9	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					176_BBM_ToMcLehose 12Dec1787 (4) 176_BBM_ToMcLehose 12Dec1787 (5)	176_BBM_ToMcLehose 12Dec1787 (1) 176_BBM_ToMcLehose 12Dec1787 (2) 176_BBM_ToMcLehose 12Dec1787 (3)	H2: "These lines I know to be the genuine handwriting of my brother Robert Burns. Isabella Begg. Bridge-house Ayr 19 May 1845"	See additional details on MS in Ferguson Roy Letters I: "M'Lehose, 1843. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The bracketed last sentence is no longer with the MS. and is taken from M'Lehose. The MS. is endorsed 'These lines I know to be the genuine handwriting of my brother Robert Burns. Isabella Begg. Bridge-house Ayr 17th May 1845'. A facsimile of this letter appeared in the Burns Chronicle, 1937."	Letters 161 (3); Burns Chronicle, 1937
177	Burns Birthplace Museum	There'll never be peace until Jamie comes Hame/Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation	[c.1791]	[c.1791]	3.6185; 36186	Verse	Laid	Bound ms. Binding contains facsimile of first poem, typed description of ms, and single folded sheet with two holograph songs, ink on paper. Addressed [?] to Mrs Hume with H2: "Mr Burns" on last page and folded into envelope.	240W 190H										177_BBM_There'll never be peace & Parcel of Rogues (1) 177_BBM_There'll never be peace & Parcel of Rogues (2) 177_BBM_There'll never be peace & Parcel of Rogues (3) 177_BBM_There'll never be peace & Parcel of Rogues (4) 177_BBM_There'l	Robert Burns "There'll never be peace until Jamie comes Hame" "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" Author Manuscript of these two Jacobite songs. Acc. 9.381/312	From box 6. Unable to photograph on lightbox due to binding, but chain lines visible. No visible watermark or countermark. Date estimated by composition of both songs.	K326; K375
178	Burns Birthplace Museum	[Passion's Cry] My steps Fate on a mad conjuncture thrusts	[1788]*	[1788]	3.6378	Verse	Laid	Holograph ms poem to Clarinda in rhyming couplets, ink on paper. 4 stanzas across two sides of single folded sheet of excise paper, first three stanzas on blank side, final stanza on side with red ledger lines.	333H 414W	16	1"	Vertical	Pro Patria	GR				178_BBM_My Steps Fate (10) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (11) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (12) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (13)	178_BBM_My Steps Fate (1) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (2) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (3) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (4) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (5) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (6) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (7) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (8) 178_BBM_My Steps Fate (9)	3.6378 RB 'My steps fate on a …' H2 [Currie]: 'Noble verses by the Bard to Clarinda - on an occasion when she had said that "they must part" [&c.?] H3:'Copied by W.W.C' [William Wallace Currie]	H3 same as H2? Darker ink. *Date suggested by RBBM webpage on MS: "Burns began to compose Passion's Cry in 1788, while in the midst of his affair with Agnes McLehose. The poem is written in English Augustan couplets. He reworked the poem several times, not completing it until 1793. This is an early draft of the poem and includes many lines which have been omitted from the finished version." See Kinsley Poems II for further details about the composition and date: "Passion's Cry. Text from Ferguson's transcript of the Barrett MS (B;?1793), collated 428. There are three stages in the history of Passion's Cry: a 'Fragment' written in 1788; a revision in 1789; and an apparently final version made in 1793. Of the 1788 'Fragment', written during Burns's infatuation with Clarinda (see 187, introductory note) in Edinburgh, the Huntington Library MS is the earliest surviving copy. It is a sixteen-line expostulation from 'Sylvander', with an epigraph ('I burn, I burn …') from Pope, Sappho to Phaon, 11. 9–10. For the opening lines, see textual note on 11. 11–26. A copy (MS Lochryan A), with a revised opening, was sent to Mrs. Dunlop between March and June 1788 (for the date see Correspondence, Appendix B). The Egerton MS has the same title, epigraph, and opening as Lochryan A, and was probably written about the same time. During these months Burns returned to Ayrshire and acknowledged Jean Armour as his wife; and, estranged from Clarinda, settled at Ellisland. In January 1789 he returned to his 'Fragment', adapting it to apply to the affair of Captain James Montgomerie and Mrs. Maxwell Campbell, the heiress of Skerrington, Cumnock. Montgomerie was Mrs. Campbell's lover, and the father of her child (born 1784). In March 1787, as Burns wrote to Gavin Hamilton from Edinburgh, the Court of Session 'tried whether the husband could proceed against the unfortunate Lover without first divorcing his wife, and their Gravities on the bench were unanimously of opinion that Maxwell may prosecute for damages directly, and need not divorce his wife at all if he pleases; and Maxwell is immediately … to prove, what I dare say will never be denied, the Crim-con.' (Letter 88). Montgomerie was Burns's 'gallant Rt W-p-full Brother' in free-masonry, and engaged all his sympathy. The 'Fragment' was revised as a verse epistle from Mrs. Maxwell Campbell to Montgomerie, now in the West Indies, on the consequences of their 'crim. con. amour', and sent (as a draft 'lately begun') to Alexander Cunningham on 24 January 1789 (Letter 307). A new opening, 'By all I lov'd neglected and forgot' (see 11. 5–6, textual note), is followed in the Cunningham MS by omission marks for the Pope epigraph and thereafter the original fragment with an expanded ending (428. 21–26). A copy of the original lines only (MS Lochryan B) went to Mrs. Dunlop on 5 February 1789, as 'verses … altered … with a view to interweave them in an epistle from an unfortunate lady whom you knew.—Whether I may ever finish it, I do not know; but I have one or two of the principal paragraphs already by me, of which [this] is one' (Letter 310). Here Burns restores his first opening phrase, 'Now, maddening, wild', but the copy is otherwise not very different from Cunningham's. The undated Don MS has both 'paragraphs', 'By all I lov'd' and 'Now, maddening, wild', and agrees with Mrs. Dunlop's copy (see 11. 16–17 and 26) against Cunningham's. Burns eventually went back to his plan of an address to Clarinda, whom he saw again in 1791. He abandoned the tragic opening, 'By all I lov'd', for a new one (428. 1–10), retaining only the quotation in 11. 5–6 from the first of the fragments sent to Cunningham in 1789. About June 1794 he sent 11. 1–8 to Clarinda (Letter 629). It has, however, been convincingly argued by J. De L. Ferguson (Modern Language Notes, xlv (1930), 99–102) that this is part of a full version (the Barrett MS) sent–probably to Maria Riddell–in the autumn of 1793 as a fair copy of 'these lines which you were pleased to commend so much' (Letter 597). This version cannot, at any rate, be earlier than autumn 1793, since it carries the revised text of 425 sent to Thomson on 3 September. The new epigraph is an incorrect quotation of Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv. iii. 222–3. The title, Passion's Cry, is editorial; Scott Douglas heads the poem Sappho Redivivas—A Fragment."	K428; <http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/object_detail/3.6378> [accessed 25 Aug 2017]
179	Burns Birthplace Museum	Excise Paper	1793	1793	3.6153	Excise	Laid	Excise document with Burns's autograph alongside signatures from various individuals.	330H 414W	16	1"	Vertical	Britannia	R. Reid & Co.				179_BBM_Excise Paper (8) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (9) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (10) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (11)	179_BBM_Excise Paper (1) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (2) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (3) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (4) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (5) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (6) 179_BBM_Excise Paper (7)	6.153 Excise Paper,1793, RB RBBM Webpage: " This is the narrative portion of an Excise Voucher prepared by Robert Burns to account for the excise duty collected at a brewery in his Dumfries District for a cash value of sixteen pounds, five shillings and eleven pence. The brewery ale here is brewed in three strengths described as strong ale, small beer and twopenny. The latter being a quality of ale which cost two pence a quart. It is signed by Burns's supervisor Alexander Findlater and by Collector John Mitchell."		<http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/object_detail/3.6153> [accessed 25 Aug 2017]
180	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter RB to William Niven 12 June 1781	12 June 1781	1781	3.6030	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter from Burns to Niven, iink on paper, across singlle folio sheet. Address on rear to Mr William Niven Merchant in Maybole. H2 records date. Some damage/tear to ms where folded to make envelope.	200H 315W	8	1"	Horizontal		JG				180_BBM_ToWMNiven12Jun1781 (6) 180_BBM_ToWMNiven12Jun1781 (7)	180_BBM_ToWMNiven12Jun1781 (1) 180_BBM_ToWMNiven12Jun1781 (2) 180_BBM_ToWMNiven12Jun1781 (3) 180_BBM_ToWMNiven12Jun1781 (4) 180_BBM_ToWMNiven12Jun1781 (5)	letter RB > William Niven, 12th June 1871.	Early letter. See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Ferguson, 1931; text first printed in the Glasgow Herald, 25 July 1929. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway."	Letters 3 (3)
181	Burns Birthplace Museum	Memo of agreement Burns and William Creech	[1787?]	[1787]	3.6115	Other	Laid	Holograph ms, ink on paper, single folio sheet.	325H 440W	16"	1"	Vertical	Britannia	J. Cripps		England		181_BBM_Memo Creech (6) 181_BBM_Memo Creech (7) 181_BBM_Memo Creech (8) 181_BBM_Memo Creech (9)	181_BBM_Memo Creech (1) 181_BBM_Memo Creech (2) 181_BBM_Memo Creech (3) 181_BBM_Memo Creech (4) 181_BBM_Memo Creech (5)	3.6115 Memo of agreement RB + Wm Creech		See Shorter 1957, index for Cripps.
182	Burns Birthplace Museum	Whistle and I'll come to you my lad	[Aug 1793 - May 1794]*	[c.1793-94]*	3.6306	Verse	Laid	Holograph song, ink on paper, across both sides of single sheet of cut paper. H2 recording details of ms in ink on reverse.	259H 205W	10	1"	Horizontal	Post					182_BBM_Whistle and I'll come to you my lad (5)	182_BBM_Whistle and I'll come to you my lad (1) 182_BBM_Whistle and I'll come to you my lad (2) 182_BBM_Whistle and I'll come to you my lad (3) 182_BBM_Whistle and I'll come to you my lad (4)	3.605 'Whistle and I'll come to you my lad' H2 [Thomson?]: "Song by Mr. Burns in his own Hand Writing [recd?] 11 May 1794"	Partial watermark of post horn. Paper halved. Begins with Burns' note about setting of tune in Scots Musical Museum, II:109. *MS H2 dates the receipt of the MS as 11 May 1794. However, Kinsley dates the song to 1793, saying it was sent to Thomson in Aug of that year. Cf. Ferguson Roy Letters II (No. 578 [23]), who conjecture that the song was sent to Thomson about 25 Aug 1793 (They consulted "Douglas, 1877; completed in Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the Morgan Library, New York.") Burns' note on the Song MS about the setting in SMM would seem to echo what's said in this letter.	K420; Letters 578 (23)
183	Burns Birthplace Museum	Verse to Clarinda: 'Fair Empress of the Poet's Soul'	March 17 1788	1788	3.6390	Verse	Laid	Holgraph ms verse, signed Sylvander and sent from Edin.r March 17th 1788. Ink on paper across both sides of single sheet of halked paper. H2 feint on reverse note about frontispiece.	225H 194W	9	1"	Horizontal	Post					183_BBM_To Clarinda 'Fair Empress of the Poet's Soul' (5) 183_BBM_To Clarinda 'Fair Empress of the Poet's Soul' (6)	183_BBM_To Clarinda 'Fair Empress of the Poet's Soul' (1) 183_BBM_To Clarinda 'Fair Empress of the Poet's Soul' (2) 183_BBM_To Clarinda 'Fair Empress of the Poet's Soul' (3) 183_BBM_To Clarinda 'Fair Empress of the Poet's Soul' (4)		Partial watermark.	K219
184	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to Peter [Patrick] Miller Sep 1787	28 Sep 1787	1787	3.6048	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper, across two sides of single folded sheet. Address and wax seal on reverse. Addressed to 'Peter Miller Esquire of Dalswinton by Dumfries'.	226H 376W	9	1"	Horizontal		J. Buttanshaw	Hamptons Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		184_BBM_ToPeterMiller28Sep1787 (7) 184_BBM_ToPeterMiller28Sep1787 (8)	184_BBM_ToPeterMiller28Sep1787 (1) 184_BBM_ToPeterMiller28Sep1787 (2) 184_BBM_ToPeterMiller28Sep1787 (3) 184_BBM_ToPeterMiller28Sep1787 (4) 184_BBM_ToPeterMiller28Sep1787 (5) 184_BBM_ToPeterMiller28Sep1787 (6)	letter RB > Peter Milller 28th Sept 1787	In BBM Box D7 (7 of 18). See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Chambers, 1851. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The poem alluded to in the body of the letter was likely On the Death of Sir J. Hunter Blair; that in the postscript, To Miss Isabella Macleod ("The crimson blossom charms the bee"). See Poems, 160, 148."	Letters 139 (2); Shorter 1971, 60, 102
185	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to Robert Graham Esquire	6 Oct 1791	1791	3.6096	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter ms, ink on paper. Titled 'Postscript', written on one side of halved sheet, with address to 'Robert Graham Esquire of Fintry Excise Office Edin.r' on reverse along with wax seal and Dumfries postmark and Oct 06 date stamp.	220W 254H	10	1"	Vertical	Post and GR					185_BBM_ToRobertGrahamEsq5Oct1791 (6) 185_BBM_ToRobertGrahamEsq5Oct1791 (7)	185_BBM_ToRobertGrahamEsq5Oct1791 (1) 185_BBM_ToRobertGrahamEsq5Oct1791 (2) 185_BBM_ToRobertGrahamEsq5Oct1791 (3) 185_BBM_ToRobertGrahamEsq5Oct1791 (4) 185_BBM_ToRobertGrahamEsq5Oct1791 (5)	3.6096 Postscript RB > Fintry, 5th Oct 1791.	See Ferguson Roy Letters II: "Chambers, 1856. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway." They date letter to 6 Oct, which accords with the poststamp. BBM folder dates it to 5th Oct.	Letters 476 (10)
186	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to [Robert Graham of] Fintry [Feb] 1794	February 1794	1794	3.6099	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter ms, ink on paper, across both sides of half sheet of paper. H2 has written 'Burns' in pencil at top of face.	212W 252H	10	1 1/16&quo	Horizontal	Post and GR					186_BBM_ToFintry (4) 186_BBM_ToFintry (5)	186_BBM_ToFintry (1) 186_BBM_ToFintry (2) 186_BBM_ToFintry (3)	3.6099 letter RB > Fintry Jan 1794?	Ferguson Roy edn dates the letter to Feb 1794, but note: "J. C. Ewing dated this letter [31 Jan. 1794] without indicating the source of his information." See also their note about MS and reply: "Allen, 1927. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Graham replied on 2 March."	Letters 615A (15)
187	Burns Birthplace Museum	Note [to Robert Riddell] concerning song 'My Highland lassie o'	[c.1789-1791]	[c.1789-1791]	3.6149	Note	Laid	Holograph note, ink on paper, written on one side of piece of larger sheet. H2 in pencil in feint writing at bottom of face records 'see vol 2 188'	130W 205H	5	1 1/16&quo	Vertical		[J.WHAT]MAN		England		187_BBM_Note My Highland lassie (4) 187_BBM_Note My Highland lassie (5)	187_BBM_Note My Highland lassie (1) 187_BBM_Note My Highland lassie (2) 187_BBM_Note My Highland lassie (3)	3.6149 Note concerning song 'My Highland lassie o'	H2 probably a reference to SMM vol 2. Partial countermark Date suggested by end of note addressed to Mr Riddell, suggesting this MS was related to the composition of the Glenriddell MS: "For the sake of this, & similar anecdotes, Mr Riddell will keep these volumes soley for hiss private perusal" See note in Burns Encyclopedia about authenticity: "In the spring of 1786, Burns wrote a song, 'The Highland Lassie, O'. On a note in the interleaved Museum (once thought to be a forgery by Cromek, but shown by Ferguson in an article in the Philological Quarterly, July 1930, to be genuine), Burns wrote: 'This was a composition of mine in very early life, before I was known at all in the world. My Highland lassie was a warm-hearted charming young creature as ever blessed a man with generous love. After a pretty long tract of the most ardent reciprocal attachment we met by appointment, on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot by the Banks of Ayr, where we spent the day in taking farewell, before she should embark for the West Highlands to arrange matters among her friends for our projected change of life. At the close of Autumn following she crossed the sea to meet me at Greenock, where she had scarce landed when she was seized with a malignant fever, which hurried my dear girl to the grave in a few days, before I could even hear of her illness.'"	SMM II: 188; Philological Quarterly, July 1930; Burns Encyclopedia, s.v. "Campbell, 'Highland' Mary (1763 — 86)"
188	Burns Birthplace Museum	Fragment - seven quotations in English and French			3.6152	Fragment	Laid	Holograph fragment of paper with quotes, in ink. H2 in pencil ('245 ma[xx]??') at bottom of reverse side.	155W 200H	8	1 1/16&quo	Horizontal	Britannia					188_BBM_Fragment in French (6) 188_BBM_Fragment in French (7)	188_BBM_Fragment in French (1) 188_BBM_Fragment in French (2) 188_BBM_Fragment in French (3) 188_BBM_Fragment in French (4) 188_BBM_Fragment in French (5)	3.6152 seven quotations in English and French, RB.
189	Burns Birthplace Museum	Fragment - scheme of expectants	[March-April 1795]	[1795]	3.6155	Excise Fragment	Laid	Small scrap of paper with Burns writing and autograph in ink on one side and provenance on other.	186W 73H	3	1 1/8"	Horizontal						189_BBM_Fragment Expectants (4)	189_BBM_Fragment Expectants (1) 189_BBM_Fragment Expectants (2) 189_BBM_Fragment Expectants (3)	3.6155 'scheme of expectants'	Date suggested by dates listed on MS verso.
190	Burns Birthplace Museum	Fragment - receipt	12 January 1791	1791	3.6156	Excise Fragment	Laid	Small piece of paper with receipt written by Burns and receipt stamp reading 'two pence for receipts' on face. Torn across fold in middle and stuck to backing paper.	205W 83H	*	*	*	*						190_BBM_Fragment receipt (1) 190_BBM_Fragment receipt (2) 190_BBM_Fragment receipt (3) 190_BBM_Fragment receipt (4)	3.6156 Receipt for fine signed RB, 12th Jan 1791	*Watermarks not visible due to backing paper.
191	Burns Birthplace Museum	Excise statement of account	1791	1791	3.6159a	Excise	Laid	Autograph excise document with accounts in ink on both sides of piece of larger sheet of excise paper, ruled on one side. Repaired.	266W 203H	8-9		Vertical	Lily					191_BBM_Excise statement of account (4) 191_BBM_Excise statement of account (5)	191_BBM_Excise statement of account (1) 191_BBM_Excise statement of account (2) 191_BBM_Excise statement of account (3)	3.6159a Excise Statement of Account, RB	Date from MS. Cf. entry 192.
192	Burns Birthplace Museum	Excise statement of account 2 [copy of previous entry]	1791	1791	3.6159b	Excise	Laid	Excise document, same as entry 1791. Ink on both sides of piece of larger sheet of excise paper, ruled on one side. Repaired.	270W 204H	9	1 3/16&quo	Vertical		A. Cowan & Sons		Scotland		192_BBM_Excise Statement (4) 192_BBM_Excise Statement (5)	192_BBM_Excise Statement (1) 192_BBM_Excise Statement (2) 192_BBM_Excise Statement (3)	3.6159b Excise Statement of Account, RB	Copy of MS in entry 191	Shorter 1971, 207-9, 210, 214, 215
193	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to Robert Graham Jan 1788	[January 1788]	[1788]	3.6087 [a]*	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter ms, ink on paper, single folio sheet with letter on first two sides. Partial address and repair on last side along with wax sel and H2: 'Mr Burns 1788'	224H 369W	9	7/8"	Horizontal		J. Buttanshaw	Hamptons Mill, Maidstone, Kent	England		193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (8) 193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (9)	193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (1) 193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (2) 193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (3) 193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (4) 193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (5) 193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (6) 193_BBM_ToRobertGrahamJan1788 (7)	3.6087 letter RB ("St James Sq. Monday Morn"), Jan 1788 to Robert Graham of Fintry	Start of BBM Box D8, which contains 4 letters (one of which is a verse epistle) to Robert Graham of Fintry. See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Currie, 1800; completed in Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway." Date from this edn.	Letters 172 (1); Shorter 1971, 60, 102
194	Burns Birthplace Museum	Verse Epistle 'To Robert Graham Esq of Fintry'	5 Oct 1791	1791	3.6095	Verse Epistle	Laid	Autograph verse epsitle to Graham from Ellisland dated 5th Oct. 1791. Written on all four sides of single folded sheet, ink on paper.	404W 254H	10	1"	Horizontal		LVG	Egmond a/d Hoef, North Holland	Holland		194_BBM_Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry (5) 194_BBM_Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry (6)	194_BBM_Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry (1) 194_BBM_Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry (2) 194_BBM_Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry (3) 194_BBM_Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry (4)	3.6095 Verse Epistle RB > Fintry, 5th Oct 1791	See Ferguson Roy Letters II, p.117 [no. 476 (10)], for accompanying letter to Graham dated 6 Oct.	K335; Letters 476 (10)
195	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to Robert Graham Dec 1789	9 Dec 1789	1789	3.6092	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter ms, ink on paper. Single folded sheet with writing on all sides. Some repairs.	228H 371W	9	1"	Horizontal		I. Taylor	Basted Mill, Kent	England		195_BBM_ToRobertGraham9Dec1789 (5) 195_BBM_ToRobertGraham9Dec1789 (6)	195_BBM_ToRobertGraham9Dec1789 (1) 195_BBM_ToRobertGraham9Dec1789 (2) 195_BBM_ToRobertGraham9Dec1789 (3) 195_BBM_ToRobertGraham9Dec1789 (4)	3.6092 letter RB > Fintry 9th Dec 1789	See Fergusson Roy Letters I: "Currie, 1800; Chambers, 1856; completed in Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Graham answered 17 Dec"	Letters 373 (3); Shorter 1971, 96
196	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to Robert Graham Sep 1790	4 Sep 1790	1790	3.6094	Letter	Laid	Autoograph letter ms, ink on paper. Single folded sheet with writing on all sides. H2 on verso with name and date.	257H 403W	10	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					196_BBM_ToRobertGraham4Sep1790 (4) 196_BBM_ToRobertGraham4Sep1790 (5)	196_BBM_ToRobertGraham4Sep1790 (1) 196_BBM_ToRobertGraham4Sep1790 (2) 196_BBM_ToRobertGraham4Sep1790 (3)	3.6094 letter RB > Fintry, 4th Sept 1790	Last Burns MS in BBM Box D8. See Ferguson Roy Letters II: "Chambers, 1856. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. In answer to a letter from Graham of 14 Aug."	Letters 419 (9)
197	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to Patrick Miller March 1788	3 March 1788	1788	3.6052	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on paper. Single folded sheet. Address to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton Esq at his lodgings Edinr on reverse. Wax seal and related tear (repaired) from opening. Mauchline poststamp and Mar 5 postdate. H2 in ink [Currie?] above address. Clear examples of letter locking, postage and watermark.	234H 377W	10	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (10) 197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (11)	197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (1) 197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (2) 197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (3) 197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (4) 197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (5) 197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (6) 197_BBM_ToPatrickMiller3Mar1788 (	H2 [Currie?]: 'Robert Burns Mauchline 3 Mch 1788 anent the farm of Ellisland'	Start of BBM Box D9. See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Burns Chronicle, 1954, where it appears in print and in facsimile. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway."	Letters 214A (4); Burns Chronicle 1954 [for facsimile]
198	Burns Birthplace Museum	Lament of Mary Queen of Scots	[1790]	[1790]	3.6299	Verse	Laid	Holograph poem on folio sheet, mounted on card for display so only face can be seen.	322H 201W[folded]			Vertical							198_BBM_Lament of Mary Queen of Scots (1) 198_BBM_Lament of Mary Queen of Scots (2) 198_BBM_Lament of Mary Queen of Scots (3)	3.6299 lament of M. Q. of Scots	Mounted on Card for display so cannot be opened. Date estimated from composition of poem. See Kinsley Poems II.	K316
199	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to Clarinda	[26 January 1788]	[1788]	3.6367	Letter	Laid	Letter signed Sylvander. Ink on paper. Part of larger sheet of paper.	178H 203W	7	1 1/16&quo	Horizontal						199_BBM_ToMcLehose (3)	199_BBM_ToMcLehose (1) 199_BBM_ToMcLehose (2)		Date from Ferguson Roy Letters I, who note: "Stewart, 1802. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway"	Letters 188 (21)
200	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to McLehose	[28 December 1787]	[1787]	3.6373	Letter	?*	Holograph letterfor mounted for display.	186W 227H	*	*	*	*						200_BBM_Letter (1) 200_BBM_Letter (2) 200_BBM_Letter (3) 200_BBM_Letter (4) 200_BBM_Letter (5)		*One side visible due to mounting; cannot be opened or photographed on lightbox due to backing. Last MS in BBM Box D9 Date from Ferguson Roy Letter I, who note: "Stewart, 1802. Ferguson, 1931, added the penultimate sentence which is heavily scored through and was omitted in Stewart. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway."	Letters 166 (5)
201	Burns Birthplace Museum	Song - In the Character of a Ruined Farmer	[Autumn 1786]	[1786]	3.6275.f	Verse	Laid	Holograph song, ink on both sides of single sheet. Repairs round edges. Part of tune ('Go from my window') missing at title.	235H 188W	9	Irregular,	Horizontal	[Post?]					201_BBM_Song A Ruined Farmer (4) 201_BBM_Song A Ruined Farmer (5)	201_BBM_Song A Ruined Farmer (1) 201_BBM_Song A Ruined Farmer (2) 201_BBM_Song A Ruined Farmer (3)	Stair mss	D10. Part of Stair MS collection Date from Kinsley Poems I	K29
202	Burns Birthplace Museum	Stair mss: 'The Vision'; 'Gloomy Night'; 'Song on Miss W.A' ['Lass o Ballochmyle'], 'My Nanie O']	[Autumn 1786]	[1786]	3.6275. a-d	Verse	Laid	6 seperate holograph sheets of poems and songs, ink on both sides of paper. Significant bleeding of ink to other sides. In transparent plastic.	c.235H 189W [irregul	9	1"	Horizontal		IV	Hattem, Guelderland	Holland		202_BBM_Stair MSS (4) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (5) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (8) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (9) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (12) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (13) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (15) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (16) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (20) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (23) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (	202_BBM_Stair MSS (1) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (2) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (3) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (6) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (7) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (10) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (11) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (14) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (17) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (18) 202_BBM_Stair MSS (1	Stair mss	Folder contains 7 sheets, 6 of which are bound in plastic, and includes [a] The Vision, [b] 'The Gloomy Night' [c] 'Lass of Ballochmyle' [d] 'My Nanie O', plus previous entry. No 3.6275.e See Kinsley Poems I 62n on dating of MS.	K62; K122; K89; K4; Shorter 1971, 47; <http://bookhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/devon-watermarks-fleur-de-lys.html> [accessed 28/08/17] on watermark.
203	Burns Birthplace Museum	On Elphinstone's translations of Martial/To an Old Sweetheart/On the death of John McLeod Esq	[1788]	[1788]	3.6212	Verse	Laid	Occasional verses in Burns's hand written in ink on either side of single sheet of paper. Repair to one edge.	234W 331H	8	1"	Vertical							203_BBM_On Elphinstone's Trans of Martial		See Kinsley Poems I for note on MS: "The Alloway MS (a) is on the back of a holograph of 162, but is not necessarily the later of the two manuscripts;"	K146
204	Burns Birthplace Museum	Epitaph to Robert Fergusson and Letter	[6 February 1787]	[1787]	3.6068	Letter Verse	Laid	Autograph letter to Baillies of Canongate and verse for Fergusson's headstone on two sides of thick paper. H2 in ink [Currie?] and [H3]		7	1"	vertical	Lion					204_BBM_Epitaph to Robert Fergusson (4) 204_BBM_Epitaph to Robert Fergusson (5)	204_BBM_Epitaph to Robert Fergusson (1) 204_BBM_Epitaph to Robert Fergusson (2) 204_BBM_Epitaph to Robert Fergusson (3)	H2: "Liberty was granted - he erected the stone which is to be seen there" H3: "Epitaph on Robert Fergusson the poet with the letter that accompanied it xx.!"	See Kinsley Poems I: "Epitaph. Text from the Alloway MS (Al; on the verso of a draft of'Burns''s letter to the Bailies of the Canongate, 6 February 1787), collated with the inscription sent to Peter Stuart? February? 1787 ( Currie, ii. 59). The inscription has ll.1-4 only. Title from Al." cf. Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Currie, 1800. Here collated with the original draft in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The epitaph is on the verso of the draft, with the following prefatory sentences in Burns's hand: 'Here lies [the remains of (deleted)] Robert Ferguson, Poet. He was born 5th Sept. 1751 [for 1750] and died 16 Oct. 1774.' The draft is endorsed in Currie's hand: 'Liberty was granted & he erected the Stone which is to be seen there.' There is a transcript, without the signature, in the Don MS. in Edinburgh University Library."	K142; Letters 81
205	Burns Birthplace Museum	Bonnie Lass o Ballochmyle	[c.1787?]	[c.1787?]	3.6171	Verse	Laid	Holograph song, ink on two sides of paper. Some repairs. Notes by other hands on face and bottom of rear.	332H 199W	8	1"	Vertical	Lion					205_BBM_Lass o Ballochmyle (3) 205_BBM_Lass o Ballochmyle (4)	205_BBM_Lass o Ballochmyle (1) 205_BBM_Lass o Ballochmyle (2) 205_BBM_Lass o Ballochmyle (5) 205_BBM_Lass o Ballochmyle (6)	H2: "Written by Burns" H3: "The above in Burns's own handwriting given to Viscount Sidmouth by Sir Howard Douglas Bach Dec 24th. 1818	Viscount Sidmouth was a title created for former Prime Minister Henry Addington 1757-1844. Probably sent by General Sir Howard Douglas 1776-1861. *See Kinsley Poems I on the Alloway MS: "The Alloway MS, in view of Burns's foot-note on his friend's mediation, must be later than the Stair MS. It is likely that the letter to Miss Alexander was written after this first attempt to get permission had failed. But, Burns says in a note to his transcript of the letter in the Glenriddell MSS, 'She was too fine a Lady to notice so plain a compliment.—As to her great brothers … Ye canna mak a silk-purse o' a sow's lug'. He had not, however, abandoned hope of a favourable answer when he went to Edinburgh in late November 1786; he submitted the song and 65 to a 'jury of Literati' there on 7 March 1787, but they failed to get approval (see 65, introductory note). Henley and Henderson suggest (iv. 87) without argument that the Alloway MS (then owned by G. E. P. Arkwright) was the copy submitted to the 'Literati'; but it is more likely that the manuscript collated by Dewar, with alternative versions offered for ll. 15–16 and 23–24, was that copy (see textual note). Currie's text (which Thomson followed in SC) may have been Miss Alexander's copy; it is at any rate related to the manuscript collated by Dewar. The text in Polyhymnia, and the Gray tract collated in H-H., have no obvious authority."	K89
206	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to Robert Ainslie	[c.1 Jun 1788]*	[1788]	3.6045	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter, ink on one side of paper. H1 note with date in pencil on face; H2 with note on provenance in ink on rear initialed by Robert Ainslie.	230H 185W	9	1" -	Horizontal		IV	Haldem, Guelderland	Holland		206_BBM_ToRobertAinslie (4) 206_BBM_ToRobertAinslie (5)	206_BBM_ToRobertAinslie (1) 206_BBM_ToRobertAinslie (2) 206_BBM_ToRobertAinslie (3)	H1: "About 1 Jun 1788" H2: "Edinburgh 23rd June 1818. Given to Mr. James .. By me who received it from R. Burns and to whom he [?????] many [????] Letters - R.A" Online catalogue records "Dated Dumfries".	On date, see Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The enclosure was a letter from May Cameron, an Edinburgh servant-girl, begging for help because she was out of a job, destitute, and 'in trouble'. The date is conjectural, from the reference to 'that affair of the girl' in Letter 252. This letter may, however, belong rather to Burns's first visit to Dumfries in 1787." Note that Paper is similar to that used in the Stair ms, which dates to the earlier period. Cf. Entry 202	Letters 246 (9); Shorter 1971, 47; <http://bookhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/devon-watermarks-fleur-de-lys.html> [accessed 28 Aug 2017] on Villedary
207	Burns Birthplace Museum	Nithsdale's Welcome Hame	[c1789-1792]	[c.1789-1792]*	3.6235	Verse	Laid	Holograph song on one side of repaired paper, ink on paper.	204H 166W	6	1"	Vertical	GR					207_BBM_Nithsdale's Welcome Hame (4) 207_BBM_Nithsdale's Welcome Hame (5)	207_BBM_Nithsdale's Welcome Hame (1) 207_BBM_Nithsdale's Welcome Hame (2) 207_BBM_Nithsdale's Welcome Hame (3)		*c.1789 for event referred to and possible composition? 1792 for publication in Johnson's SMM. See Kinsley Poems I	K279; SMM, 1792 (364)
208	Burns Birthplace Museum	Epigram to Maria Riddell	[c.1793]	[c.1793]	3.6234	Verse	Laid	Letter to Maria initialed by Burns and consisting entirely of his verse Epigram in ink on one side of folder sheet.	245W 191H	9	1"	Vertical		[LVG?]				208_BBM_Epigram to Maria Riddell (2) 208_BBM_Epigram to Maria Riddell (3)	208_BBM_Epigram to Maria Riddell (1)		Date from Kinsley Poems II, who notes: "Text from the Alloway MS (addressed on verso to Mr.s W. Riddell Woodleypark and signed RB). H-H. (ii. 253) use a MS (not traced) with the heading On my Lord Buchan's vociferating in an argument that 'Women must always be flattered …' and these variants: 426. Undated; but the MS recorded in H-H. (ii. 441) has, on the verso, a draft of 425 written in (? late) August 1793. On Maria Riddell see 438, introductory note. On the Earl of Buchan see 331, introductory note."	K426
209	Burns Birthplace Museum	To Gavin Hamilton Esq, Mauchline	3 May 1786	1786	3.6231	Verse Epistle	Laid	Holograph verse epistle, ink on paper, single folio sheet, addressed to Gavin Hamilton on rear.	375W 240H	9	1"	Horizontal	Post	L.V.Gerrevink	Alkmaar	Holland		209_BBM_Epistle to Gavin Hamilton (4) 209_BBM_Epistle to Gavin Hamilton (5)	209_BBM_Epistle to Gavin Hamilton (1) 209_BBM_Epistle to Gavin Hamilton (2) 209_BBM_Epistle to Gavin Hamilton (3) 209_BBM_Epistle to Gavin Hamilton (6)		cf. Kinsley Poems I: "Text from the Alloway MS (dated, and superscribed for posting), collated with Cromek, Reliques, 1808 (p. 397)."	K102; Letters 29B (3)
210	Burns Birthplace Museum	To Miss Isabella MacLeod	16 March 1787	1787	3.6232	Verse Epistle	Laid	Autograph verse, ink on one side of paper. Some damage to paper through staining. Stuck to backing card. Feint trace of postmarks.	198W 256H	8	1"	Vertical		Band	Somerset	England		210_BBM Verse to Miss Isabella MacLeod (2) 210_BBM Verse to Miss Isabella MacLeod (3)	210_BBM Verse to Miss Isabella MacLeod (1)	H2: "March"	'The crimson blossom charms the bee,' […] See Kinsley Poems I: "To Miss Isabella Macleod. Text from the Alloway MS (dated Edin? March 16th 1787 and signed Rob? Burns)"	K148; Letters, 88 A; Shorter 1971, 60 on papermaker;
211	Burns Birthplace Museum	A Birthday Ode/ Fragment of On Elphistone's Trans. of Martial	31 December 1788	1788	3.6210	Verse	Laid	Holograph poem, ink on paper, single folio sheet, with the Birthday Ode to Charles Stewart across the first 3 pages and a fragment (fist stanza) on Elphinstone on the rear and H2 [Currie] in brown/red ink.	378W 225H	9	1"	Horizontal		W.C. & C.				211_BBM_A Birthday Ode & Fragment on Elphinstone's Trans (4)	211_BBM_A Birthday Ode & Fragment on Elphinstone's Trans (1) 211_BBM_A Birthday Ode & Fragment on Elphinstone's Trans (2) 211_BBM_A Birthday Ode & Fragment on Elphinstone's Trans (3) 211_BBM_A Birthday Ode & Fragment on Elphinstone's Tr	H2: "Copied before [after 1 to 69?]"	cf. Entry 23 and 203	K146; K189
212	Burns Birthplace Museum	Nancy, A Song [Thine am I my Chloris Fair]	[October 1793]	[1793]	3.6200	Verse	Laid	Holograph song, ink on paper. H2 [Currie] in ink on rear.	257H 199W	10	1"	Horizontal	Post					212_BBM_Nancy, A Song (4) 212_BBM_Nancy, A Song (5)	212_BBM_Nancy, A Song (1) 212_BBM_Nancy, A Song (2) 212_BBM_Nancy, A Song (3)	H2: "A Song Thine Am I - copied 181"	See Kinsley Poems II for alternate title and also date: "The earliest copy of this song, to which Burns had 'just put the last hand', was sent to Mrs. Riddell with [K]433. The 'Nancy' of this version was probably Clarinda (see 187, introductory note), who had returned from Jamaica (cf. Letter 544); and she was still the subject when the song went to Thomson on 29 October 1793 (Letter 593). But in 1794 the poet's interest was fixing on Jean Lorimer, 'Chloris' (see 340, introductory note)." cf. K433: "Sent to Maria Riddell in October 1793 (Letter 590) "	K434
213	Burns Birthplace Museum	Ken ye Ought o' Captain Grose	[Late 1790]*	[1790]	3.6199	Letter Verse	Laid	Holograph poem about Grose and accompanying note about the verse, addressed to 'Mr Findlater, Supervisor, Dumfries'. Ink on folded sheet. Note of authentication from George Thomson.	397W 248H	9	1"	Horizontal	Post						213_BBM_Ken ye Ought o Captain Grose (1) 213_BBM_Ken ye Ought o Captain Grose (2) 213_BBM_Ken ye Ought o Captain Grose (3) 213_BBM_Ken ye Ought o Captain Grose (4)	H2: "That the above is the hand of Robert Burns our great Poet, is well known to Geo. Thomson Edinburgh"	*For date see Kinsley Poems II: "Text from the Glenriddell MS (Glen; pp. 144-5), collated with the Alloway MS (Al; Letter to Findlater, (?) late 1790) and Currie (iv. 398-9)"; cf. Ferguson Roy Letters II: "Ferguson, 1931. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The note bears neither signature nor date; it was probably written in the latter months of 1790."	K322; Letters 414 (5)
214	Burns Birthplace Museum	On Chloris	[1794]	[1794]	3.6197 3.6197	Verse	Laid	Initialied verse in ink stanza on small fragment of paper, stuck to later backing paper, with note on provenane in H2 on rear.	206W 127H	5	1"	Vertical	*					214_BBM_On Chloris (3) 214_BBM_On Chloris (4)	214_BBM_On Chloris (1) 214_BBM_On Chloris (2)	H2: "Given by Burns to Mr Cunninghame of Edinburgh from whose son I received it [GB]rain[y?] 1812"	*Watermark "H.W?ll 181[2?]" showing through is from later backing paper dated early nineteenth century. Alexander Cunningham died in 1812, which may have been when the note passed to his son, who may have then passed it on the same year. Date from Kinsley Poems II	K480
215	Burns Birthplace Museum	To Miss Ferrier	[1787]	[1787]	3.6192	Verse Epistle	Laid	Autograph verse epistle, ink on both sides of single pieceof paper. Dated "St James Square Saturday even."	228H 180W	10	7/8"	Horizontal		I. Taylor	Basted Mill, Kent	England		215_BBM_ToMissFerrier (3) 215_BBM_ToMissFerrier (4) 215_BBM_ToMissFerrier (5)	215_BBM_ToMissFerrier (1) 215_BBM_ToMissFerrier (2)		For date, see Kinsley Poems I: "To Miss Ferrier. Text from the Alloway MS (enclosing a copy of 160)" cf. Ferguson Roy Letters I: "The College Album, A Selection of Original Pieces, Edited by Students in the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, 1828), where it carries the following note: 'A young lady had requested the poet to send her a copy of one of his poems with which she had been particularly pleased, which he did, accompanied by the following verses.' Collected in Chambers, 1851. The original MS. is in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway."	K161; Letters 168A; Shorter 1971, 96 [on papermaker]
216	Burns Birthplace Museum	A Fragment - Ballad on the American War	[1784]*	[1784]	3.6189	Verse Fragment	Laid	Holograph poem, ink on two sides of single sheet of paper.	335H 204W	8	1"	Vertical		F & T	Aller Mill, Devon	England		216_BBM_Ballad on the American War (3) 216_BBM_Ballad on the American War (4)	216_BBM_Ballad on the American War (1) 216_BBM_Ballad on the American War (2)		*Date from Kinsley Poems I, who notes: "A Fragment. Text from the Edinburgh edition, 1787, collated with the Alloway MS, SMM, 1788 (101),SC, 1801 (127), and the editions of 1793, 1794- First-line title in SMM and SC. Tune in 87 Killiecrankie, in SMM M. freicedan 38. It is likely that this Fragment was written in 1784: Burns sketches the American war and other events leading up to the election in the spring of that year, but does not refer to anything later. His politics at this time were 'a peculiar blend of different sentiments. He professed a sentimental attachment to the Stuarts, and was thus set down as a Tory. He at the same time sympathised with Dempster and other independent members of the House of Commons, and wore the blue-and-yellow colours, which denoted in those days an attachment to the principles of Fox' (Chambers-Wallace, ii. 66). Dugald Stewart, who met him in 1786, took him for a Jacobite; but 'indeed he did not appear to have thought much on such subjects, or very consistently' (Currie, i. 139; cf. infra, Letter 70). On reading the Fragment Hugh Blair remarked, 'Burns's politics always smell of the smithy' (Lockhart, i. 204). It is merely a squib: a humorous account of events that others besides Burns had found tragi-comic, and a natural (though half-ironic) expression of satisfaction on Pitt's triumph. The poem was among those sent to John Ballantine in (?) April 1786, for possible inclusion in the Kilmarnock book (Letter 26); but Ballantine or some other friend advised against it. In December 1786 Burns was trying his Fragment out again, now on Henry Erskine, Dean of Faculty, whom he had just met at the Canongate Lodge: 'I showed the inclosed political ballad to my lord Glencairn, to have his opinion whether I should publish it; as I suspect my political tenets, such as they are, may be rather heretical in the opinion of some of my best Friends.—I have a few first principles in Religion and Politics, which, I believe, I would not easily part with; but for all the etiquette of, by whom, in what manner, &c. I would not have a dissocial word about it with any one of God's creatures, particularly an honored Patron, or a respected Friend' (Letter 70)."	K38; Shorter 1971, 61
217	Burns Birthplace Museum	To Capt Gordon [on being asked why I was not to be of the party with him and his brother Kenmure at Syme's]	[c.1793]*	[c.1793]	3.6188	Verse Epistle	Laid	Holograph verse epistle, ink on one side of paper with H2 [Currie] note on rear.	333H 208W	8	1"	Vertical	Britannia					217_BBM_ToCaptGordon (3) 217_BBM_ToCaptGordon (4)	217_BBM_ToCaptGordon (1) 217_BBM_ToCaptGordon (2)	H2: "39 Verses to Capt Gordon in answer to the question why he was not asked to [etc…]"	MS date conjectured by Kinsley (Poems II), who notes "To Captn. G——. Text from the Alloway MS 437. Adam Gordon, an officer of the 81st Regiment, was the third son of John Gordon of Kenmure and grandson of the Jacobite martyr Kenmure (see 364, introductory note). His elder brother John, 'noble Kenmure', was member of parliament for Kirkcudbright 1784–6; he was restored to the dignities and titles of the family in 1824. Burns met him first at Kenmure in late July 1793, during his tour of Galloway with Syme, and got a subscription from him for SC (Letter 575). My placing of the epistle is conjectural; the MS is undated."	K437
218	Burns Birthplace Museum	Truehearted was he [Jessie a new Scots song]	[1793]	[1793]	3.6184	Verse	Laid	Holograph verse, ink on paper, on single sheet of paper. Paper stuck to backing with a signed note in H2 offering details of its composition.	194W 229H	8	1"	Horizontal	[Post?]					218_BBM_Jessie (3) 218_BBM_Jessie (4)	218_BBM_Jessie (1) 218_BBM_Jessie (2)	H2: "At a party in Dumfries / in May 1784 / Mrs. Bell requested Burns to write something for her to [keep]. / he at once wrote the annexed song Miss Staig being at the party. /	Date from Kinsley Poems II, who doubts the note on the MS: "Jessie Staig was the daughter of the provost of Dumfries (see 318. 44 n.). There is a note—hardly to be credited—on the Alloway MS that at a party in Dumfries in May (?1792) 'Mr. Bell requested Burns to write something for him'; this song was set down 'at once', Jessie Staig being present." Note that the date on the note in question is looks more like 1784 than 1792, but is incorrect in any case.	K404
219	Burns Birthplace Museum	Lament for Wm Creech's absence [To William Creech / Willie's Awa]	13 May 1787	1787	3.6173	Verse Epistle	Laid	Holograph verse, ink on paper, across all 4 sides os folded sheet.	375W 228H	9	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					219_BBM_Lament for Creech's Absence (3) 219_BBM_Lament for Creech's Absence (4)	219_BBM_Lament for Creech's Absence (1) 219_BBM_Lament for Creech's Absence (2)		See Kinsley Poems I: "To William Creech. Text from the Alloway MS (letter to Creech, 13 May 1787), collated with Cromek, Reliques, 1808 (p. 24) 154. Sent to Creech on 13 May as 'just wrote, nearly extempore, in a solitary Inn at Selkirk, after a miserable wet day's riding' (Letter 106). On the tradition of the mock elegy, and its stanza, see 25, introductory note." cf. Ferguson Roy Letters 106 (1) for accompanying letter: "Cromek, 1808. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. The date is taken from the MS. of the poem, not from the letter."	K154; Letters 106 (1)
220	Burns Birthplace Museum	Receipt [Scheme of Arrears and Warrants]			3.6157	Excise	Laid	Receipt signed by Burns, ink on fragment of paper, with later backing.	175W 160H	5	1"	Horizontal						220_BBM_Receipt (2)	220_BBM_Receipt (1)	MS: Scheme of Arrears and Warrants
221	Burns Birthplace Museum	Letter to [check]	31 July 1789	1789	3.6091	Letter	Laid	Autograph letter from Ellisland, ink on paper, across 4 sides of folded sheet.	400W 245H	10	1"	Horizontal	Post and GR					221_BBM_Letter 31 July 1789 (4)	221_BBM_Letter 31 July 1789 (1) 221_BBM_Letter 31 July 1789 (2) 221_BBM_Letter 31 July 1789 (3)		See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "Chambers, 1856. Here collated with the original MS. in the Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Burns's draft of the paragraph beginning 'Mr Mitchel' is in the British Library. In answer to a letter from Graham of 19 July."	Letters 353 (6)