BURNS MANUSCRIPTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 7 (Supplement)

BURNS MANUSCRIPTS.

A VALUABLE COLLECTION. Valuable -Bums manuscripts were handed over to the custody of the Bums Cottage Trustees at Ayr recently, w« n at an informal lunchebn K 1^ 11 • . c , James Bell of Montgreenan, Mr. Robert. Graham, of London, a d.rect ant in the seventh generation of the male line of Graham of I'intry. who was a personal friend of Robert Burns. ha. idea over 23'. manuscripts which bis family err- firing on loan to the trustees The manuscripts include ™ ic , ,e ' te ™ written by Burns to Robert Graham of Firitrv; 'ode on Capt. Groses peregrinations through Scotland ng the antiquities of the kingdom; 4 "The Five Carlins," 23 stanzas; letter, <!atcd June 10. 1790. Robert Burns to Mrs Graham; poem, Queen Maiy ■ Lament": ode to Fintry, dated June 10. 1790 4 leaves, and postscript. elegy the death of the late Edinburgh. 3 leaves: poem. Ihe Rights of Woman." 2 leaves; poem lament for James Earl of C.lencairn, 2 leaves; Ihe Whistle" a-bnllad. 2 leaves; ode, Sacied to the memory of Mrs O. of A ; "Tarn c Shanter." a tale. 6 leaves: Dutch verRion of " Tamo' Shanter bv F. W. Paitz a president of the late Orange IV-e "State; letter from Mr. Fmdlater. The manuscripts, which are in a' splendid state of preservation, will shortly be placed in the Museum at the Cottage in AlloWav. i