Robert Burns
Manuscript Poem
MSS 78-36 SHAW Lock Box
1 item
Processed March, 1978
AMs, (UNSIGNED) Robert Burns (1759-1796). "On Reading in a Newspaper
an account of the death of J. M'L. Esq. brother to Miss Isabella M'---a
particular friend of the Author's; & whose Family had for some time
suffered a train of misfortunes."
Scope and Content:
The Esty manuscript of the elegy for Isabella M'Leod's brother, and
the only manuscript text to include the qualification "& whose
Family had for some time suffered a train of misfortunes." The manuscript
is collated by James Kinsley in his three-volume edition of the Songs and
Poems of Robert Burns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968, no 162; cf.
also notes, III, 1241. Twenty-eight lines, seven stanzas, two pages on
the recto and verso of one quarto leaf.
Purchased from:
Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
5-8 Lower John Street
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London W1R 4AU