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Correspondence file for Burns Monument Trust

Key details

Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/714
Alt. number
3.6915
Date
1907 to 1913
On display
No

Description

Correspondence file including testimonials on authenticity of water trough from Tam O'Shanter Inn; letter from Bernard Quarritch, art dealer in Leicester on Burns autograph for sale, 1907; Offer of portrait of poet's mother by William Japp, 1907 . Dumfries correspondence on lock of Burns hair, 1906; Jolly Beggars chapbook in Falkirk, 1906; McGregor Bequest of Burns portrait and book 'Contemporaries of Burns', Jean Armour's shawl, 1913; Esdaile furniture collection; Burns Museum particulars.