'At Whigham's Inn': Mrs. Provost Whigham's lost Kilmarnock, the Allan Young Census, and an unexpected discovery
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Abstract
Reports the recent acquisition by Princeton University Library of a long-lost copy of Robert Burns's first book Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1986), formerly owned by Burns's friend Edward Whigham; describes the later transcript it contains of the short poem "At Whigham's Inn," long attributed to Burns; and reassesses the authorship of the poem, based on a source in John Hughes (1677-1720), reprinted in Hughes's Poetical Works (Edinburgh, 1789).
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1 Burns Chronicle for 2016, 2015. Patrick Scott, "'At Whigham's Inn': Mrs. Provost Whigham's Lost Kilmarnock, the Allan Young Census, and an Unexpected Discovery," Burns Chronicle for 2016 (November 2015): posted here, by permission, (c) Burns Chronicle & Robert Burns World Federation, 2015.