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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet)

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Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Sheet music: Logan & Co.'s Inverness , Collection of Popular Gaelic Songs, various music, c 1880-c 1910

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Scope and Contents Sheet music: Logan & Co.'s Inverness Collection of Popular Gaelic Songs, various music. Logan & Co.'s Inverness Collection of Popular Gaelic Songs: 'An Ribhinn Donn'/'The Highland Maid', plain cover, [1880s], Gaelic words by A. Macintyre, translated by H. Whyte, arranged by W. S. Roddie, 'Ealaidh Chaoil'/'Melody of Love', multi-coloured cover,...
Dates: c 1880-c 1910

Song titled "Fill the cup and pledge wi' me! Air - "Lewie Gordon"", 1810-1857

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Identifier: Coll-1839/7/pp.197-198
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Song titled "Fill the cup and pledge wi' me! Air - "Lewie Gordon."" This song was written for the anniversary meeting in memory of Robert Burns.

Dates: 1810-1857

‘Songs of the Hebrides, manuscript, including “Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean”’, 1927-1930

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Scope and Contents ‘Songs of the Hebrides, manuscript, including “Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean”’. ‘Songs of the Hebrides, ms. [manuscript], incl. [including] “Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean”’. ‘Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean’: several sheets with fragments of songs, noted by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser in Barra, August 1927, from Bean Shomhairle bhìg, Mrs...
Dates: 1927-1930

Speech at Colinton Burns Club, proposing 'The Immortal Memory', January 1966

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.237
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Speech given by Norman Dott at Colinton Burns Club, proposing 'The Immortal Memory', dated January 1966. The material uses some of the same material as Coll-32/D.212-D.216 and it includes correspondence.

Dates: January 1966
pp. 8-9
pp. 8-9

Symbolae Scoticae

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Identifier: Coll-10
Scope and Contents The Symbolae Scoticae [= ‘Scottish contributions’] is a set of eight purpose-bound scrapbooks containing more than 2000 items relating to Scottish history, geography and culture.The bulk of this material consists of 18th and early 19th century prints illustrating Scottish topography and antiquities; but the collection also includes original historical documents, printed maps, portrait engravings, newspaper and magazine clippings, two calotypes,...
Dates: circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)

Tam O'Shanter, 1811

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Identifier: Coll-10/5/59(ii)
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Tam O'Shanter. Line engraving. 1811. Burnet, John, 1784-1868, Artist; Clerk, T. (Thomas), Engraver; Morison, James, 1762-1809, Publisher.

Published in: Josiah Walker, Poems by Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life (1811), vol. II.

Note: Printed title and verse below trimmed off; title added in ink.

Dates: 1811

Text of paper on 'Facial Pain', June 1951

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.65
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Text of paper by Norman Dott on 'Facial Pain', delivered in June 1951. The material consists of the text of the paper, with summary, list of slides, and glossary of Scots terms used in poem by Robert Burns 'Address to the Tooth-Ache', with which paper opens. When the lecture was first delivered, these verses were spoken by Doctor A. Brownlie Smith and the item includes Dott's letter of instructions to him on his 'powerful declamation'.

Dates: June 1951

The House in which Burns died, Dumfries, 1838

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Identifier: Coll-10/5/148
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The House in which Burns died, Dumfries. Line engraving. 1838. Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854, Artist; Havell, Frederick James, 1801-1840, Engraver; Virtue, George, 1793?-1868, Publisher.

Published in: Allan Cunningham, The Poems, Letters, and Land of Robert Burns [1838-40], vol. II.

Dates: 1838

Two poems by Robert Burns and Peter Pindar transcribed by Louisa Matilda Crawford, 7 November 1821

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Identifier: Coll-1839/3/1/4
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Two poems titled "Wandering Willie" by Robert Burns and "The Druids Hymn to the Sun" by P Pinder [sic], transcribed by Louisa Matilda Crawford. Peter Pindar was the pseudonym of English satirist John Wolcot.

Dates: 7 November 1821

Various music collections, Part 1 & 2, c 1855-1885

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Scope and Contents Various music collections, Part 1 & 2. [Melodies of all Nations] Scotch Airs, arranged for piano by William Hutchins Callcott, [London]: [Brewer & Co.], c 1860, binding broken, cover and two leaves missing, pages torn. Reminiscences of the Jacobite Airs, Sung by Mr Wilson in his popular Scottish...
Dates: c 1855-1885