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Proof sheet of Tam o' Shanter, for Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland

Key details

Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/02/02
Alt. number
3.3147
Date
1791
On display
No
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)

Description

Proof sheet of Tam o' Shanter, for Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland.

One of the dozen copies of the proof-sheet of the poem referred to in Burns' letter of 28th February, 1791, to Dr John Moore. This is the only copy now known to exist. Mounted in book, preceding text hand-w

Archive information

Hierarchy

  1. Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs ( )
  2. Proof sheet of Tam o' Shanter, for Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland

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