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Letter from Robert Burns to John Leven, with 'The De'il's awa wi' th' Exciseman'

The Vision, Duan First and Duan Second

Newspaper clipping titled The Birth of Burns—The True Story On Which the Popular Legend Has Been Built

Letter from Robert Burns to Mr David Sillars

The Dumfries Volunteers

Scots wha hae

Proof sheet of Tam o' Shanter, for Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland

Robert Burns' copy of Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, containing a fragment of a manuscript

The Five Carlins

Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry on the election for the Dumfries string of Boroughs, 1790

Alterations of the verses Written in Friars' Carse Hermitage

Now helth forsakes that angel face" [fragment] by Robert Burns

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