Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/02/54
- Alt. number
- 3.6194.a-b
- Date
- 1784
- On display
- Yes
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/02/54
- Alt. number
- 3.6194.a-b
- Date
- 1784
- On display
- Yes
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
Description
The Holy Tulzie. Partly written in an unidentified hand and finished in the hand of Robert Burns.
This is a satire on a tulzie (quarrel) between two Kirk ministers over the size of their respective flocks. Robert’s friends met this attack on the ‘Auld Lichts’ with a ‘roar of applause’.
Sometimes known as "The Twa Herds". A satirical lamentation on the quarrel re. parish boundaries between the ministers of Riccarton and Kilmarnock. Followed by a second Manuscript, see item ref 3.6195
Archive information
Themes
Hierarchy
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Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs
(
a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
- The Holy Tulzie
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