56 Maria Riddell, the Friexd of Burns. 



friend Thomson, the Editor, the channel of their corre- 

 spondence in Switzerland, through which medium the 

 business is going forward. Thomson has enlarged his 

 plan. The hundred pathetic airs are to be as proposed 

 only he means to have four plates instead of two. He 

 likewise has increased his number of facetious songs and 

 lively airs and proposes adorning them here and there 

 with vignettes. The following I wrote the day for an 

 Irish air which I highly admire, and for the sake of my 

 verses, he has obligingly adopted into his selection." 

 The song is given as follows, " Scotch Song; Tune, 

 Humors of glen (Irish)." He also gives another song, 

 " A Scotch song; Tune, My Lodging is on the cold 

 ground;" and also a third song, " English song; Tune, 

 Roy's Wife," etc. 



491 Burns (Robert) Autograph Verses, i^ pp. folio, " For a' 

 that an' a' that," commencing " Is there for honest 

 Poverty." 



492 Burns (Robert) Printed Notice of the death of Robert 

 Burns, dated Dumfries, 23 July, 1796. 



493 Burns (Robert) Printed Verses, endorsed " By Burns, 

 1795," " Whom will we send to London Town " — 

 Facsimile of a letter of Burns ; and one other old manu- 

 script. m 



I'll It will be noticed that none of the letters or poems men- 

 tioned in this sale catalogue are dated. The following notes, made 

 by Mr. Stephen Wheeler some time before Dr. de Noe Walker's 

 death, show that he must have disposed of some Burns' Manuscripts 

 before he died. 481, Was sent to George Thomson in April, 1793; 

 printed by William Scott Douglas; in his Burns' Works (6 vols., 

 1877-1879), vol. iii., p. 127. 482, Printed, torn, cit., p. 177. 483, 

 Printed, op. cit., vol. vi., p. 76, where it is dated April, 1793. 484, 

 Printed, torn, cit., p. 76, where it is dated April, 1793. 485, 

 Printed, torn, cit., p. 92, where it is dated November, 1793. 488, 

 " Letter — R. Burns to Mrs. Riddell, containing song — ' 0, bonie 

 was yon rosy brier.' " Printed, op. cit., vol. iii., p. 288. 489, 

 Printed, torn, cit., p. 192, where it is dated June 4th, 1796. 



The following items, noted by Mr. Stephen Wheeler as having 

 belonged to Dr. A. de Noe Walker, do not appear to have been 

 sold at this sale: — (1) "Letter — R. Burns to Mrs. Riddell — Dum- 



