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[Burns, Robert]. "A down winding 'Nith I did wander …"
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[Burns, Robert]. "No Churchman am I for to rail and to write …" A Song
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Pasted on sheet in bound volume with HM 13037-13039. Titled "Tune--Prepare, my dear brethren, to the tavern let's fly." With annotations of explanation in author's hand. Author's signature pasted on verso by James Portes; also history of manuscript given on verso by Portes.
HM 13036.
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Burns, Robert. Letter to [William Creech]
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Dumfries, [Scotland]. Includes 17 epigrams and a song titled "A Song. -- Tune, My lodging is on the cold ground, beginning "My Chloris, mark how green the groves, …"
HM 13042.
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Burns, Robert. Letter to [Robert Riddell]
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Ellisland, [Scotland]. Includes "The Wedding Day, A Song, Tune, The Seventh of Nov." (the last two lines added later in pencil by an unknown hand).
HM 13034.
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[Burns, Robert]. "Their groves o' sweet myrtles let Foreign Lands reckon …"
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Consists of two songs titled "Song--Tune, Humors of glen" (beginning "Their groves o' sweet myrtles …") and Johnie B---'s lament-Tune The babes o' the wood" (beginning 'Twas in the seventeen hunder year…")
HM 13045.
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[Burns, Robert]. "Thou lingering star with lessening ray …"
Manuscripts
A song; with annotation in unknown hand: "Song-addressed to Mary in Heaven--!!!"
HM 13035.
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[Burns, Robert]. "The last time I came o'er the moore…"
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A song in three verses. Corrections in the author's hand. On the verso: "Acct. of Books Bot. in to the Mankland Society's Library."
HM 13049.