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Description: | Letter suggested to have been written on 4th May 1787. It encloses a song which Burns claims being 'never before known' which he obtained from Dr Blacklock titled 'the air by McGibbon'. (letter no 104)
James Johnson was in the process of collecting and publishing the words and music for all the old Scots songs he could muster and had enlisted Burns's help in the project, the first volume of which was by this time already at the press.
Page two of two. This page reads from 'when Dunbar' to the Poet's signature. Burns is in the process of writing several farewell letters this day which included one to his friend William Dunbar and this may explain the request he makes to Johnson to remember him to Dunbar when they next meet. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1787-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to James Johnson, | Go to resource |
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