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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died of heart disease in Dumfries aged 37 years.
The volume which is bound in half-calf, with marbled paper sides is on display in Burns Cottage Museum Alloway.
This is the second of 2 common-place books of the Poet. It begins in Edinburgh, April 9th. 1787 and the last entry was made probably in 1790. The pages contain prose and poetry in the hand of Burns. Portions of the contents were first printed by Dr. James Currie in his edition of Burns' works in 1800. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1783-01-01 - 1785-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Burns Second Common-Place Book | Go to resource |
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