Burns the Family Man
A touching overview of an important aspect of Burns’s life beyond his poetry and song by project Research Associate, Dr Carol Baraniuk In transcribing Burns’s letters and those of his many correspondents from manuscripts...
Picking Up the Pieces: A Burns Letter and the Legacy of Autograph-Hunting
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...
Prof Nigel Leask on Editing the Letters
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...
More on Lieutenant Moore: identifying the people in Burns’s correspondence
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...