Abstract
Describes and illustrates the autograph manuscript of the song "Afton Braes" ("Flow gently, sweet Afton"), by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), recently acquired by the G. Ross Roy Collection, University of South Carolina Libraries, giving a collation of variants against the other major sources, examining the paper's watermark and excise stamping, and exploring both the provenance of the manuscript itself and its significance for the University of South Carolina.
Recommended Citation
Scott, Patrick G.
(2014)
"An Autograph Manuscript of Robert Burns’s “Afton Braes”,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 40:
Iss.
1, 207–214.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol40/iss1/17