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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet)

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of Manuscript Poems by Richard Gall and Related Materials

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2908
Scope and Contents This is an archive of late eighteenth-century Scots poetry composed of over 40 poems in the hand of Scottish poet Richard Gall (1776-1801), together with 36 poems sent to Gall by writers in his circle, and materials relating to the posthumous publication of Gall's Poems and Songs in 1819.1. Forty-seven poems by Gall (of which some unpublished), nearly all with corrections and variant readings, some present in several different copies, two in apparently...
Dates: c 1790-1819
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Collection of Original Letters and Verses of Robert Burns, 2nd half of the 18th century

 Item
Identifier: La.III.586
Scope and Contents

Collection of original letters and verses by Robert Burns.

Dates: 2nd half of the 18th century

Tickets for events organised by the Caledonian Club of New York, designed by John Allan

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-2922
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 23 engraved tickets for events organised by the Caledonian Club of New York, dated around 1830-1840. The cards were designed by John Allan and engraved by various well-known American engravers.The majority of the cards are for the Annual Caledonian Ball and incorporate images such as Scottish dancing, bagpiping, references to Scottish history, thistles, tartan, castles and snippets of Scottish verse (almost entirely drawn from the works of Robert...
Dates: c 1830 - c 1840