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Letters from and to Robert Burns

Key details

Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/01
Date
1780 to 1796
On display
No
Creator
Burns, Robert [1759-1796], letters

Description

This is a collection of approximately 150 separate items which include handwritten letters and notes from Robert Burns. Within this section correspondents include: William Niven; Thomas Orr; Gavin Hamilton; John Richmond; John Kennedy; James Sibbald; William Creech; Robert Ainslie; Alexander Cunningham; Robert Graham; Maria Riddell; Robert Riddell; Mrs Dunlop; Agnes McLehose; Jean Burns; Jean McMurdo, etc. Collection fully described at item-level

Hierarchy

  1. Letters from and to Robert Burns( )
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