'We'll not forget THE PEOPLE': The Roy Manuscript of Burns's 'The Dumfries Volunteers'

Author(s)

Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina - Columbia

Document Type

Article

Abstract

A brief illustrated report on an early manuscript of Burns's song "The Dumfries Volunteers ("Does haughty Gaul invasion threat"), now in the Roy Collection, University of South Carolina Libraries, originally sent by Burns to the editor of the Dumfries Journal, and published there on May 5, 1795, but unavailable to Kinsley and other recent editors.

Publication Info

Studies in Scottish Literarure, Volume 47, Issue 2, 2022, pages 135-146.