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Description: | Verses from 'The Silver Tassie' and 'Written In Friar's Carse Hermitage'. The latter was originally written in 1788 in the summer house or Hermitage on the estate of Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
This holograph manuscript contains revisions of poems written by Robert Burns. It comprises a single sheet written on both sides. The first lines on each page are 'The boat rocks at the Pier o' Leith' and 'Life is but a day at most ...'.
Robert Burns met Riddell, a neighbour, shortly after he moved to Ellisland, outside Dumfries and they became close friends. Riddell gave Burns a key to the Hermitage so that he might have somewhere to write. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1788-01-01 - 1788-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | 'The Silver Tassie' and 'Written In Fria | Go to resource |
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