Editing Robert Burns’s Correspondence and Poetry
An AHRC-funded Project to produce a multi-volume edition of the Works of Robert Burns
Guest blog by Professor Patrick Scott (Honorary Research Fellow, CRBS) Many Burnsians do not realize quite how much of what they read rests, not on original manuscript evidence, but on earlier and now unverifiable...
I’ve enjoyed getting back to editing my batch of letters for the Burns Correspondence, and I’m blogging to mark having just completed the fiftieth today. Among this batch have been the poet’s letters to...
In John Moore’s letter to Burns, dated 8 Nov. 1787, Moore explained somewhat murkily as an excuse for lateness of his reply that ‘I was envolved in a business that gave me a great...