The G. Ross Roy Collection has a variety of manuscripts by and relating to Robert Burns, including poetic manuscripts in the poet’s hand, letters written by and to him, Burns, letters and poems addressed to him, portions of manuscript relating to his government work for the Excise, a portion of his glossary for the 1787 Edinburgh edition of his Poems, a signed promissory note, and much else.
This project makes available full digital facsimiles of all manuscripts by Robert Burns in the G. Ross Roy Collection and of all other manuscripts relating to Burns written before 1830.
