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Lot 42

RAMSAY (ALLAN)
Autograph manuscript of his poem "To Dr Robinson when at Edinburgh July 30th 1734" Edinburgh, Thomas Ruddiman, for the Author, 1727

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RAMSAY (ALLAN)

Autograph manuscript of his poem "To Dr Robinson when at Edinburgh July 30th 1734" written on the front free endpaper of a fourth edition of "Poems", some overall browning, contemporary calf, rubbed, lower cover detached, 8vo, Edinburgh, Thomas Ruddiman, for the Author, 1727

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The only known manuscript of this poem, comprising eighteen lines, beginning: "Now troth dear Doctor it is kind ...".

It was first published in Notes and Queries in 1865 and subsequently in Ramsay's Works. It is mentioned in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts, III, 1700-1800, compiled by Margaret M. Smith and Alexander Lindsay, 1992, Allan Ramsay, RaA 354.

Provenance: W. Carew Hazlitt, 1865; Sotheby's, 1 June 1907, lot 340, sold to W. Brown.

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