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Lot 445

RAMSAY (ALLEN)
Poems

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Footnotes

Autograph manuscript of Ramsay's poem "To Dr Robinson when at Edinburgh July 30th 1734", comprising eighteen lines, beginning: "Now troth dear Doctor it is kind...".

Provenance: formerly in the possession of W. Carew Hazlitt (1865); Sotheby's, 1 June 1907, lot 340, sold to W. Brown; since then and until now untraced (see John Goodridge, 'Alan Ramsay', RaA 354, in Index of English Literary Manuscripts, iii, pt. 3, edited by Smith and Lindsay, 1992).

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