Article
Picking Up the Pieces: A Burns Letter and the Legacy of Autograph-Hunting
Editing Burns for the 21st Century
(2020)
Abstract
Comments on the way that some of Burns's friends and 19th c autograph hunters snipped bits from Burns manuscripts as relics, and discusses a recent example where a letter fragment offered at auction provides the long-missing missing conclusion to a Burns letter in the Roy Collection.
Keywords
- Robert Burns,
- Scottish petry,
- literary manuscripts
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 19, 2020
Citation Information
Patrick Scott. "Picking Up the Pieces: A Burns Letter and the Legacy of Autograph-Hunting" Editing Burns for the 21st Century (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/384/