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Burns, Robert, (1759-1796), poet

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Surname: Burns
Forenames: Robert
Gender: Male
Date: 1759-1796
Biography: ODNB link for Burns, Robert (1759-1796), poet
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P163100 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P4281 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Robert Burns
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1780-96: corresp, verses, etc; 1705-1842: misc family papers
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.9381
2
1791-93: Glenriddell MSS
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.86-87
3
1787: annotated copy of Poems, autograph MS of Epistle from Esopus to Maria 1794-95
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc 10981-2
See Annual Return 1994
4
1786-94: letters and songs
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 22307, Eg MS 1656
5
letters and verses
Burns House Museum
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections[Ds 1993
6
1787: autobiography in letter to Dr John Moore
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Eg MS 1660
7
1786-96: letters (18); literary MSS
Huntington Library
See Guide to literary MSS 1979
8
1786-91: corresp and poems (Cowie collection)
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.15951-15975
9
1790: MS of "The Battle of Sherra-Moor"
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.13039
See Annual Return 2009
10
transcripts, notes for edition of collected poems by James Kinsley
Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
Kb
NRA 16251
11
c1786-96: letters and MS poems
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
La II 210, III 586
12
poems, letters and misc papers
Special Collections, The Mitchell Library
NRA 35994 Mitchell
13
1786: MS poem 'The Ordination'
Special Collections, The Mitchell Library
891736
See Annual Return 1995
14
letters, MSS, etc
Writers' Museum
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
15
misc MSS
Strathclyde University Archives
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
16
corresp with Frances Dunlop (c150 items)
The Morgan Library
See NUC MS 84-2137
17
corresp and literary MSS
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
18
letters (10) to Peter Hill
The Morgan Library
See NUC MS 84-2137
19
letters (57) to George Thomson
The Morgan Library
See NUC MS 84-2137
20
1786: letter to William Niven, merchant of Maybole
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.13839
See Annual Return 2017
21
1787-1791: poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect, and corresp with Thomas Sloan, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and Robert Chambers
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.14167
See Annual Return 2020
22
manuscripts from the Library of Honresfield House
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.14410
See Annual Return 2022
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