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Description: | This single page letter from Burns to George Sutherland enclosed a 34 line poem for Sutherland to use as a prologue at his New Year performance of the Dumfries theatre company in Jan 1890. (letter no 380) (only a fragment of the poem remains in the Museum collection).
George Sutherlands' Dumfries Theatre had been visited by Burns who in a later letter to his brother described him 'a man of genius' and reported that Sutherland had 'spouted' the prologue 'to his audience with great applause'.
Burns recalls being reminded while riding home, musing in the dark, of the imminent New Year performance of Sutherlands' theatre players and quickly puts together his first 'crude suggestions of my Muse' on some verses celebrating the New Year for Sutherland to use or not as he wishes at his New Year show. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1789-01-01 - 1789-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to Mr George S. S | Go to resource |
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