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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet)

 Person

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Scots Songs arr. [arranged] for mixed voices by W. N. W. Watson, May 1877- December 1880

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Scope and Contents Scots Songs arr. [arranged] for mixed voices by W. N. W. Watson. ‘Scots Songs arr. [arranged] for mixed voices by W. N. W. Watson, specially arr. [arranged] for the Kennedies in 1878’, unbound collection of 35 Scots songs (also four Scots songs arranged for piano only), manuscripts, dated between May 1877 and December 1880, mostly for five voices: ‘Glenogie’, ‘Glenogie’ (second arranged), ‘Ray’s Wife o’ Aldivalloch’, ‘My Nannie’s awa’’, ‘There’s Braw Braw Lads’, ‘Ye...
Dates: May 1877- December 1880

Settings by Francis G. Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid and Robert Burns, 1923-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-2124/8/1
Scope and Contents This series consists of music settings by Francis George Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid and Robert Burns.1. Settings by Francis George Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid, being: "Crowdieknow" (1924); "Milkwort and Bog-cotton" (1932); "The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch" (1940); "Country Life’(1923); ‘Sabine" (1924); "Penny Wheep"; "The Love-sick lass" (1924); "There’s an unco tune"; "The 3 Fishes"; and, "At the window" (1930). 43 folios.2. Settings by Francis...
Dates: 1923-1940

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
Scope and Contents

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
Scope and Contents

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

 Fonds
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)
Scope and Contents

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
Scope and Contents

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

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Scottish poetry 3
Albums 2
Burns Mausoleum, St Michael's Churchyard (Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) 2
Dialect poetry, Scottish 2
Engraving 2
Hebrides (Scotland) -- Folk music 2
Scotland 2
Watercolor painting 2
Advertisements 1
Angus, Scotland 1
Ayr (South Ayrshire, Scotland) -- prospects 1
Ayrshire (Scotland) 1
Biographies 1
Burns Cottage, Alloway (Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland) 1
Burns Monument, Alloway (Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland) 1
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 -- Autographs 1
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 -- Correspondence 1
Bute, Island of (Scotland) 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Commonplace-books 1
Debt 1
Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland) 1
Eulogy 1
Facial Pain 1
Folk poetry, Scottish 1
Forgers 1
Forgery 1
Fossil Coral 1
Greyfriars Kirk (Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) 1
Inverness (Scotland) -- Folk music 1
Invitation Cards 1
Jacobites -- Songs 1
Lectures 1
Lectures and Lecturing 1
Lowell Institute lectures 1
Maps 1
Mill Street [Burns Street] (Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) 1
Music -- Scotland -- 20th century 1
Nova Scotia (Canada) 1
Parties (social gatherings) 1
Pepperell (Mass. : Town) 1
Poets, Scottish 1
Prints 1
Robert Burns House, Burns Street (Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland)) 1
Satire 1
Science Publishing 1
Scotland -- Poetry 1
Scots language 1
Scottish literature -- 17th century 1
Scottish literature -- 18th century 1
Scottish poetry -- 18th century 1
Sea Serpents 1
Sheet music 1
Societies and Clubs 1
Songs 1
St Michael's Church (Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) 1
Trigeminal Neuralgia 1
United States -- New York -- New York City 1
Wallace Tower (Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland) 1