Explore correspondence between senders and recipients of letters and documents in the Burns Collection.
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To Miss C+++++++++, a very young Lady
The Title continues "the Author". Begins: "Beautious rose-bud, young and gay". 22 lines.
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Alexander Nasmyth paints a portrait of Robert Burns for the Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
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Mozart writes the opera Don Giovanni.
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The Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published. 3,000 copies are printed and Burns sells the copyright to William Creech for 100 guineas.
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Formerly enslaved people, sent from London, establish Freetown in Sierra Leone.
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Robert Burns tours the Scottish Borders, using the proceeds of the Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect to fund his tour. He also begins to collect and contribute songs to James Johnson‘s Scots Musical Museum.
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Robert Burns tours the West Highlands.
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Robert Burns tours the Highlands.
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Robert Burns meets Agnes Maclehose in Edinburgh.
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Robert Burns and Agnes Maclehose begin exchanging love letters.
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The Rosebud
This page shows the last verse of the poem in which Burns compares young Jean to a linnet. She also produces music "on trembling string" (her harpsichord) and "vocal air" (her sweet voice) She will, herself, soon burst forth in beauty and, later, bless her parents later years.