George Thomson to Robert Burns: a newly-identified manuscript letter-fragment

Citation

McKeever G (2019) George Thomson to Robert Burns: a newly-identified manuscript letter-fragment. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45 (1), pp. 75-84. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/6

Abstract
Describes and illustrates a newly-identified fragment (final page) of a letter to Robert Burns in April 1793 from George Thomson, editor of the Select Collection of Original Scotish Songs, in the Newberry Library, Chicago, discusses the date of the letter and of the Burns song "The Soger's Return" on the letter verso, and reviews the implication of the manuscript for the sequence of letters in the Thomson-Burns correspondence.

Journal
Studies in Scottish Literature: Volume 45, Issue 1

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