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, Heritage 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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