James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder P.B. I / 23 - 69.
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
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
Christ surrounded by one hundred bobwhites
, Everything is wanting…, Freedom, Revolt, and Love
, I wanted to be a family man…
, New poems by Frank Stanford, and The Jungle
Subject (Name):
Stanford, Frank, 1949-
Subject (Topic):
American poetry--20th century and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
Glued to album page with some loss of text. and Mounted on leaf (p. 126) from disbound album. MS annotation on mounting leaf: "Transcripts of Miss Catharine Talbot's works"