Robert Burns manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Burns, Robert, 1759-1796", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Robert Burns manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"1783-1794", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1783/1794"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· Holograph poem, \"On turning up a Mouse in her nest with the plough\" : Nov 1783 : (MISC 2598) : 2 p.; begins, \"Wee, sleeket, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, / O, what a panic's in thy breastie! / Thou need na start awa sae hasty / Wi' bickerin brattle.\" With a note in ink, in an unidentified hand, on the verso, \"The original sketch of the 'Wee Mouse' by Burns presented by Earl of Shaftesbury to Elliott Cresson.\".</p><p>· Holograph poem, \"To a Woodlark -- for Mrs. Johnson\" : Mar 1794 : (MISC 1017) : 2 p.; begins, \"O, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay / Nor quit me for the trembling spray ...\" With an ink note on the verso in an unidentified hand, \"Burns Ms. / One of thee most beautiful / of Mr. Burns's latest efforts / Given to me by Mr. John / Armstrong -- 1815.\" Tipped into a copy of his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh, 1787). Shelved as *Pforz B-R 02.</p><p>· To Gilbert Burns, his brother : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Jan 1790 : (MISC 0199) : [no place] : begins, \"I mean to take advantage of the Frank though I have not in my present frame of mind much appetite for exertion in writing _ My nerves are in a damnable state ...\"; expresses his despair at the ill success of his farm; with a long prologue he wrote for Mr. Sutherland for the New Year's performance at Dumfries, which begins, \"No song nor dance I bring from yon great City / That queens it o'er our taste -- the more's the pity ...\".</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Robert Burns, Scottish poet.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1783

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1783

date_end

1794

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1783

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1794

prefercite

{"value"=>"Robert Burns manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Robert Burns, Scottish poet. &#xB7; Holograph poem, \"On turning up a Mouse in her nest with the plough\" : Nov 1783 : (MISC 2598) : 2 p.; begins, \"Wee, sleeket, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, / O, what a panic's in thy breastie! / Thou need na start awa sae hasty / Wi' bickerin brattle.\" With a note in ink, in an unidentified hand, on the verso, \"The original sketch of the 'Wee Mouse' by Burns presented by Earl of Shaftesbury to Elliott Cresson.\".", "generated"=>true}

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