Abstract
Describes the only known authorial manuscript of a short poem by Robert Burns, now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, providing a collation of variants among the early texts, and discussing the reliability of the transcripts of such Burns epigrams or versicles made by Burns's friend John Syme, on which editors must rely for other Burns items.
Recommended Citation
Scott, Patrick
(2019)
"The Roy Manuscript of Burns’s 'To John Syme',"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 45:
Iss.
2, 161–168.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss2/16