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George Thomson to Robert Burns: a newly-identified manuscript letter-fragment

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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.

Journal
Studies in Scottish Literature: Volume 45, Issue 1

StatusPublished
FundersArts and Humanities Research Council
Publication date31/12/2019
Publication date online21/11/2019
Date accepted by journal20/10/2019
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/32878
Publisher URLhttps://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/6
ISSN0039-3770