Thomson, George, 1757-1851 (Scottish music collector and publisher)

Scope and Contents 1. Autograph letter signed from George Thomson to Anne Power, née Horner, Leith (Edinburgh), 26 July 1850 : “The last time I ask’d a collector of rarities if he could give or sell me an autograph of Burns, his reply was, Why Sir you might as well ask me for that of Moses! I Iong ago parted with any scraps I had of the Poet, and have since been obliged to say No to an hundred applications at least; having got all his precious letters with his Songs splendidly bound, and I could not on any...