Provenance notes on authenticity of lock of Burns hair
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/560
- Alt. number
- 3.6519
- Date
- 1844 to 1902
- On display
- No
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/560
- Alt. number
- 3.6519
- Date
- 1844 to 1902
- On display
- No
Description
Envelope containing notes on authenticity of lock of Burns hair.
Envelope with notes on authenticity of lock of Burns hair. 13 items. Including letters from Misses MacEwan in Glasgow to David Dunlop offering to sell the lock, 1902, 2 items; letter from Thomas Killin, National Burns Memorial at Mauchline to W H Dunlop giving background on lock of hair, 1902; newscutting on lock, 1902; letters from Thomas Killin in Glasgow with history of the lock and its return from Australia, 1903, 3 items; copy letter from John Prichett in Bathurst, [Australia] with family news, July 1845; letter from Thomas Muckett in Bathurst to his mother, Ann Wilson in Mauchline on the death of Jane in Australia, 3 June 1844
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