Bloomsbury Auctions

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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 123
Lot 124
123. Yorkshire Broadside.- yo r k s h i r e li g h t-dr a g o o n s. All
Gentlemen Volunteers... who are able and willing to serve his
Majesty King George and Their Country, Against the Treacherous
and Perfidious Designs of French and Spanish Invasions... Let them
repair to... Head Quarters at Skipton in Craven..., printed broadside
with manuscript insertions, l a r g e w o o d c u t o f a d r a g o o n at head,
folds, small tear at tail where folded, browned, [n o t in estc], 490
x 305mm., [c. 1790]. £600 - £800
*** Thomas Lister raised the Yorkshire Light-Dragoons in 1779
and was raised to the peerage as Lord Ribblesdale in 1797.
124. Burns (Robert, poet, 1759-96) au t o g r a p h le t t e r s i g n e d to
“de a r sir”, 1p., sm. 4to, Dumfries, 16th January 1794, returning
a book and sending a poem, “I have much pleasure in sending you
per the Messenger from Lochmaben the Book you so kindly lent
me - It has been my solace in many a dolefull Hour when I have
been among the Hills and my dreary time here - I have only to
give you my Thanks as under my Circumstances I have no other
Ways or Means of making any Thanks or shewing my Solitude
for your Kindness to me, unless you accept the enclosed Poem or
Song of Our own Scottish Soil which may affect you - Under all
Circumstances remember me as your deeply obliged and faithful
friend”, a few small tears to edges, folds, browned and creased.
£2,000 - £3,000
*** Early in 1794 Burns was in “low spirits & blue devils” and
drinking too much, “yet he managed to propose a somewhat selfinterested
reorganization of the Dumfries excise divisions (the plan
was not adopted) and to send James Johnson forty-one songs that
he had collected or composed.” - Oxford DNB.