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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 years.
The guinea note is on display in Burns Cottage, Alloway.
The one guinea note, dated 1st. March 1780 on which Burns wrote on the reverse 12 lines, beginning 'Wae worth thy pow'r, thou cursed leaf!' It is initialed 'R.B.-Kyle'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1780-01-01 - 1780-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | One guinea note of Bank of Scotland 1st | Go to resource |
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