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Description: | Burns writes to Hoy enclosing the poem 'Streams that glide in Orient plains' and in the letter acquaints him with James Johnson's' Scots Musical Museum project for which Burns is gathering material. He requests the words of a song 'Cauld kail in Aberdeen'.
Burns met Hoy at Castle Gordon during his Highland Tour in September 1787.
Page two of three which reads from 'not from mercenary' down to 'be sure we'. In this part of the letter burns acquaints Hoy with numerous individuals involved with the Scots Musical Museum: that is, 'collecting the old poetry'. Burns informs Hoy of 'the inclosed' namely the poem 'Streams that glide in Orient Plains' which he provides as an example of the material being collected. This part of the letter closes with Burns requesting 'a copy of his Grace's word to it': it being the song 'Cauld kail in Aberdeen'. | 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 Mr Hoy at Cast | Go to resource |
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