Pierpoint Morgan and “ Au Lang Syne.”

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 2 June 1906, Page 43

Pierpoint Morgan and “ Au Lang Syne.”

It seems that although Mr, Pierpont Morgan has not secured Lord -Rosebery’s valuable Burns manuscripts he will carry over the pond a valuable collection of the poet’s autograph poems. In London the American financier purchased a collection of which he believes to be one of the best, if not the best, in the world. It contains, among other things, an autograph copy of “Auld Lang Syne,” but whether it is the “only original”'is open, to doubt. Burns was

in the habit of writing copies of his songs at the request of friends, and thus it is difficult to say of this, as well as of many other manuscripts, that it is the only copy in existence. It is interesting to note that at Messrs. Sotheby's the autograph manuscript of “To Mary in Heaven” was to be sold just before the last’ mail left. The manuscript is the property of Miss Murphy. .The song consists of four stanzas of eight verses each, and is printed bn two quarto pages. The edge is frayed and slightly torn, but the manuscript itself is in excellent condition.