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Letter from Robert Burns to Alexander Cunningham, 11 March 1791 with 'Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon'

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Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/01/50
Alt. number
3.6078.a-b
Date
11 March 1791
On display
No
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)
Recipient
Cunningham, Alexander

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Letter from Robert Burns to Alexander Cunningham, dated Ellisland, 11 March 1791 with 'Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon'. 2 sheets.

Includes the Poet's earliest draft of "Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon" which begins "Sweet are the banks, the banks o' Doon" .Also includes the text of: 1. "by yon castle wa' at the close of day" -There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame. (Poem no. 326) 2. Lines 5-8 of "I look to the west, when I gae to rest".

A seven page letter which Burns writes to his friend Cunningham replying to two of his letters and enclosing his first version of the song "Ye flowery banks" (the Banks o Doon) and his version of an old Jacobite song both of which he included in Johnson's Musical Museum Vol 4.

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