Johnie Blunt

Description

Title: Johnie Blunt
Creator: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Contributor: Burns, Robert,--1759-1796
Quaritch, Bernard,--1819-1899
Riviere & Son
Sage, Henry M.--1868-1933
Abstract: Autograph manuscript of the ballad Johnie Blunt by Robert Burns, undated, written on the verso of an address leaf that had been mailed to Burns at his office in Dumfries. It was bound with two autograph letters, signed, to Henry Sage from Bernard Quaritch regarding the ballad's authenticity and a typescript transcription of one letter with an invoice. The letters are dated 1900 August 3 and September 4 and the transcript and invoice are dated 1900 September 4.
Description: Accompanying letters not digitized.
Gift of Cornelia Cogswell Sage, 1955.
In binding by Riviere and Son.
Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist. He was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland on January 25, 1759 and died in Dumfries, Scotland on July 21, 1796.
Extent: 1 item (1 l.);
20.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Poems
Subject (Name): Burns, Robert,--1759-1796
Quaritch, Bernard,--1819-1899
Riviere & Son
Sage, Henry M.--1868-1933
Subject (Topic): Poets, Scottish--18th century
Scottish poetry--18th century

Access: Public
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Citation: Robert Burns, Johnie Blunt. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.