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Description: | This manuscript notebook covers the period from 16 December 1813 to 28 January 1819. It describes the activities of the Dumfries Burns Mausoleum Committee and also the foundation of Dumfries Burns Club.
In 1813, his friend, John Syme, launched an appeal to build a mausoleum in his honour. One of the subscribers was the Prince Regent, later George IV. The building was designed by T F Hunt, a London architect.
When Robert Burns died in 1796, he was buried in a quiet corner of St. Michael's Kirkyard, Dumfries, his grave marked with a plain stone slab. Admirers of his work, seeking to visit his grave had difficulty in finding it. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1813-01-01 - 1819-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | 'Minutes of Meetings Respecting Burns Ma | Go to resource |
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