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Description: | Part of a letter which Burns is thought to have written to John Ballantine advising him that the Edinburgh edition of his poems is about to go into print and this fragment relates to him sitting for a portrait to go on the frontispiece. (letter no 86)
The fragment has been docketed by someone saying 'Robert Burns - given to me by his brother Gilbert Burns' it also has a note attached recording that it was bought in 1976 presumably by the Burns Monument Trustees.
The eminent engraver Burns mentions is John Beugo for whom he sat a number of times while he engraved a copy of the portrait of the Poet done by Alexander Nasmyth. Why this portion of the original letter has been cutaway is unknown. | 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 John Ballantin | Go to resource |
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