Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article provides an overview of one of the major manuscript sources on Burns’s life, the inventory of letters addressed to Robert Burns made for his first editor Dr. James Currie, and reports a number of discoveries made about inventory entries during editorial work for a preliminary edition of the letters to Burns. Based on an illustrated talk recorded for a recent Project Symposium in late October at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies.
Publication Info
1 Robert Burns Lives!, Volume 207, 2014.
Patrick Scott and Joseph DuRant, "Looking Again at the Currie Inventory: the Other Side of Robert Burns's Correspondence," Robert Burns Lives!, 207 (December 10, 2014); (c) Patrick Scott and Joseph DuRant, 2014.