Found 2 collections related to Burns%2C Robert%2C 1759-1796

Robert Chambers, Scottish publisher and writer. · To "My dear Alexius" [i.e., Alexander Ireland, journalist] : 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [April 1866] : (HWD 08.038) : 2 pages (double sheet) : on embossed stationery of Union Club, St. Andrews : begins, "I am quite elated with the prospect of seeing you here on Monday next ...." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files. less

Alexander Howland Smith, known as "Antique" Smith, was a forger from Edinburgh, Scotland. Before he was imprisoned in 1893, he had made hundreds of forged documents, in particular, letters and manuscripts of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Collection known as the Stillie Manuscripts consists of 202 numbered forgeries. Volume 1 (items 1-49) contains documents related to Scottish history, including those signed by James VI, Charles I, Mary Stuart, and John Knox. Volumes 2 and 3 (items 50-202) contain forgeries of letters and manuscripts of Robert Burns. Complete list of the manuscripts in the three volumes can be found in the Lenox Library's Twenty-first Annual Report for the Year 1890 which accompanies Volume 1. less