BIB_ID
283998
Accession number
MA 655
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1789 Feb.?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (3 p., unbound) ; 33.1 cm
Notes
"Petition of the Scotch Distillers to Mr. Pitt" and "Address of the Scots Distillers" written on the verso of p. 3. The second note may be in Burns' hand; the first is in an unknown hand.
J. De Lancey Ferguson notes that the address was published in the Edinburgh evening courant on Feb. 9, 1789 and points out a reference Burns makes to a "piece of ... prose" he is mailing her that treads on "dangerous ground" (in a letter to Mrs. Dunlop dated Feb. 5, 1789).
Signed "John Barleycorn."
With corrections; published versions of the address differ slightly from this draft.
J. De Lancey Ferguson notes that the address was published in the Edinburgh evening courant on Feb. 9, 1789 and points out a reference Burns makes to a "piece of ... prose" he is mailing her that treads on "dangerous ground" (in a letter to Mrs. Dunlop dated Feb. 5, 1789).
Signed "John Barleycorn."
With corrections; published versions of the address differ slightly from this draft.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson, 1910.
Housed in
Red cloth drop-spine box (35.8 cm)
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