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Fair Jenny

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Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/02/139
Alt. number
3.6305
On display
No
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)
Recipient
Miller, Janet

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Description

Fair Jenny.

Begins: "Where are the joys I have met in the morning". 4 four-line verses; Wanting the final stanza; Several editors suggest that this song was possibly sent to Janet Miller of Dalswinton, the eldest daughter of Burns's former landlord; the suggested recipient subsequently married the 28th Earl of Mar.

Endorsed; "This song is authenticated as the composition and autograph of the late Robert Burns by William Wallace Currie of Liverpool and may be found in his father's edition of Burns Vol. 4 page 133. C.W." There are other writings on the back of the card on which the Burns holograph is mounted.

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  1. Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs ( )
  2. Fair Jenny

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