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Title: George Thomson to Robert Burns: a newly-identified manuscript letter-fragment
Author(s): McKeever, Gerard
Contact Email: gerard.mckeever@stir.ac.uk
Issue Date: 2019
Date Deposited: 8-Jul-2021
Citation: McKeever G (2019) George Thomson to Robert Burns: a newly-identified manuscript letter-fragment. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45 (1), pp. 75-84. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/6
Abstract: Describes and illustrates a newly-identified fragment (final page) of a letter to Robert Burns in April 1793 from George Thomson, editor of the Select Collection of Original Scotish Songs, in the Newberry Library, Chicago, discusses the date of the letter and of the Burns song "The Soger's Return" on the letter verso, and reviews the implication of the manuscript for the sequence of letters in the Thomson-Burns correspondence.
URL: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/6
Rights: Publisher policy allows this work to be made available in this repository. Published in Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. 45, Iss. 1 (2019) by University of South Carolina. The original publication is available at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/6
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