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., and 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.
Subject (Name):
Burns, Robert,--1759-1796, Quaritch, Bernard,--1819-1899, Riviere & Son, and Sage, Henry M.--1868-1933
Subject (Topic):
Poets, Scottish--18th century and Scottish poetry--18th century
"Stinking" issue of the Edinburgh edition, with misprints "stinking" and "haggis" on p. 263 and "Boxburgh" on p. xxxvii, of more than 300 variations from the "Skinking" edition.--Cf. from Egerer., Bookplate of Chauncey Brewster Tinker., and Half title: Poems, chiefly Scottish.
Publisher:
Printed for the author and sold by William Creech,
Subject (Name):
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796--Portraits and Tinker, Chauncey Brewster,--1876-1963--Bookplate