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The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: an Illustrated Catalog Elizabeth Sudduth Esudduth@Mailbox.Sc.Edu University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Rare Books & Special Collections Publications Collections 2009 The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalog Elizabeth Sudduth [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/rbsc_pubs Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Sudduth, Elizabeth A., ed. The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalog. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 2009. http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2009/3829.html © 2009 by University of South Carolina Used with permission of the University of South Carolina Press. This Book is brought to you by the Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rare Books & Special Collections Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The G. Ross Roy Colecion of Robert Burns Cameo portrait of Robert Burns, artist unknown, ca. 1840 z The G. Ross Roy Colecion of Robert Burns An Illuyrated Catalogue Compiled by Elizabeth A. Sudduth With the Assistance of Clayton Tarr [ Introduction by G. Ross Roy [ Foreword by Thomas F. McNally The University of South Carolina Press Published in Cooperation with the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina © 2009 University of South Carolina Published by the University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina 29208 www.sc.edu/uscpress Manufactured in the United States of America 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sudduth, Elizabeth A. The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns : an illustrated catalogue / compiled by Elizabeth A. Sudduth with the assistance of Clayton Tarr ; introduction by G. Ross Roy ; foreword by Thomas F. McNally. p. cm. “Published in cooperation with the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57003-829-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Burns, Robert, 1759–1796—Bibliography—Catalogs. 2. Roy, G. Ross (George Ross), 1924– —Library—Catalogs. 3. Thomas Cooper Library—Catalogs. I. Tarr, Clayton Carlyle. II. Roy, G. Ross (George Ross), 1924– III. Thomas Cooper Library. IV. Title. Z8135.S83 2009 [PR4331] 016.821'6—dc22 2008045164 This book was printed on Glatfelter Natures, a recycled paper with 30 percent postconsumer waste content. ] Contents List of Illustrations vi Foreword ix Thomas F. McNally Introduction xiii G. Ross Roy Compiler’s Note xix Elizabeth A. Sudduth I. Manuscripts and Typescripts 1 II. Printed Materials, Books, and Sheet Music by Burns 20 III. Burnsiana 244 IV. Art, Prints, Posters, and Photographs 367 V. Sound, Film, and Video Recordings 372 VI. Realia and Cultural Objects 375 Index 379 ] Iluyrations Cameo portrait of Burns frontispiece William Ormiston Roy, by Yousuf Karsh xiii Inscription from Charlotte Sprigings to W. Ormiston Roy xiv Holograph manuscript for “When I Sleep &c.” xxii Following page 228 Burns’s porridge bowl and spoon Fore-edge painting of Burns birthplace, by Tom Valentine The first edition of Burns’s poems, binding by Rivière & Son First edition of Burns’s poems Holograph in Burns’s hand of “Leslie Baillie” Holograph letter from “Sylvander” (Robert Burns) to “Clarinda” (Agnes M’Lehose) The Merry Muses of Caledonia Elegy on the Year Eighty-Eight Large creamware jug made by W. Ridgeway Mauchlinware binding Miniatures Variants of the Henley-Henderson edition Henry Snell Gamley, bronze maquette of statue of Burns Holograph letter from Burns to Thomas Campbell 1 Holograph letter from “Clarinda” to “Sylvander” 3 Holograph letter from Thomas Blacklock 7 Lord Woodhouselee’s advice to Burns written on proof sheets of “Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale” 9 Inscription from Burns to Mrs. Dunlop in Zeluco 17 Burns’s inscription to Isabella McLeod in The Seasons 18 Burns’s copy of The World 19 Burns’s annotated copy of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 21 “Death and Dr. Hornbook: A True Story” 22 List of Illustrations / vii Burns’s notes about Poems on the back of a letter from Henry MacKenzie 22 “Auld Lang Syne” from James Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum 23 The second American edition of Poems 24 The 1788 Philadelphia edition of Poems 25 “The Whistle” 27 “Red, Red Rose,” first published in Urbani’s Scots Songs 28 An early version of “Bruce’s Address” 29 “The Cotter’s Saturday Night” 31 Four variants of the Brash and Reid edition of Aloway Kirk 32 Elegy on the Year Eighty-Eight 34 The Kirk’s Alarm 36 The Works of Robert Burns, edited by James Currie 39 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 43 Letters Addressed to Clarinda, &c. 44 From a proof-sheet of Thomas Bewick’s illustrations for Poetical Works 51 Reliques of Robert Burns 52 Burns in German 94 Burns in French 97 Collection of miniatures including Burns’s Poems 161 Variant twentieth-century editions of The Merry Muses 181 Burns in Russian 209 Bilingual edition in Scots and Italian 212 Sydney Goodsir Smith’s A Choice of Burns’s Poems and Songs 219 McLean’s Scottish Rebel Songs 221 Burns in Swiss-German 223 Linocut by Axel Hertenstein from Tam vom Shanter 227 “Burns—the Scottish Poet” 264 Thomas Carlyle’s study of Burns 266 An extract from Frederick Douglass’s “A Fugitive Slave Visiting the Birth-Place of Robert Burns” 281 The first Burns biography 299 Special section of the London Illustrated News celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of the poet’s birth 303 The Lounger, edited by Henry Mackenzie 314 Proof of the program of the Leith Burns Club supper 316 A song sheet bound into The Burns Calendar 328 List of Illustrations / viii Inscription in Robert Burns si no kenkyu 331 William Wordsworth’s A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns 365 Portrait of Burns by Alasdair Gray 368 Burns’s silhouette of Clarinda 368 Archibald Skirving’s portrait of Burns 369 Max Beerbohm cartoon: “Robert Burns, Having Set His Hand to the Plough, Looks Back at Highland Mary” 370 Samuil Marshak’s translation of “For a’ That” 371 ] Foreword It is just twenty years since the first public announcement (on Burns Night, January 25, 1989) that the G. Ross Roy Collection was coming to the Univer- sity of South Carolina’s Thomas Cooper Library. It was a pivotal moment for the library—the first of several internationally significant research col- lections that would be acquired in the following decades, showing the new possibilities such collections can bring. In the twenty years since that announcement, it has also proved one of the most versatile of the library’s signature collections in supporting a wide variety of scholarship, exhibits and other programs. It gives the university unique research materials that cannot be found in other libraries and a distinctive research strength in Scot- tish literature that, we believe, is unrivaled in North America. It is a very big collection, both in number of volumes and in chronologi- cal range. The more than five thousand items in this catalogue are only those directly relating to Robert Burns and his works. Burns is certainly the heart of the Roy Collection, and the catalogue shows its extraordinary depth as a research resource, with manuscripts, first and later editions, music, books about Burns, portraits, statues, memorabilia, and other background mate- rial. But Burns and Burnsiana make up just over a third of the collection, which covers Scottish literature, particularly Scottish poetry, from the early eighteenth century to the present day, with some important earlier materi- als. As the library’s on-line catalogue shows, the Roy Collection can support research in depth on a host of major Scottish writers, from Allan Ramsay to Hugh MacDiarmid and beyond. It is a collection that continues to grow. Even before the collection came to the library, Professor Roy’s own scholarship, both on Burns and in editing Studies in Scottish Literature, had made South Carolina well known in Scot- tish studies. The collection benefits from that reputation. Since “retiring” in 1990, he seems to have worked as hard as ever, and his network of contacts and friendships has made sure that the collection gets even better known and keeps growing. Both separately and with Director of Special Collections Patrick Scott, he has given numerous talks and presentations based on the Foreword / x collection to academic conferences and Scottish societies. He checks through thousands of items each year in bookdealers’ catalogues, or on the Web, that might strengthen the collection, and each year for the past twenty years, he and Mrs. Roy have themselves donated many thousands of dollars in addi- tional items. Most recently, in January 2008, in a highlight of my own first months as interim dean, they transferred to the university their remaining Robert Burns manuscripts, letters, and memorabilia, including Burns’s por- ridge bowl. It is a collection that has won both wide interest and external support. The Roy Collection has drawn scholars and visitors to Columbia from around the world, both for individual research and for an extraordinary range of exhi- bitions and conferences, and this activity won the endorsement of outside- grant agencies and donors. Within a year of the first announcement, a conference on early Scottish literature drew participants to Columbia from thirteen different countries and twenty-three U.S. states. Since then confer- ences or symposia with related exhibits have followed, on Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Carlyle, the Robert Burns bicentenary, and Burns and America (at Emory University), and stand-alone exhibits on Hugh MacDi- armid, James “Ossian” Macpherson, Hamish Henderson, Alasdair Gray, the Blackwoodians, Duncan Glen and Akros, and the post-MacDiarmid Scottish Renaissance.
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