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The Geddes Burns is a copy of Robert Burns's 1787 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh Edition) with twenty-seven extra pages with twelve poems and songs in Burns's handwriting bound in, and a letter to Catholic Bishop John Geddes from the poet, written at Ellisland Farm.
Geddes Burns. Bishop John Geddes's copy of the interleaved 1787 Edinburgh Edition of Burns's poems, in which the poet wrote additional poems. It was printed in a facsimile edition of 473 copies for distribution to the Bibliophile Society of Boston in 1908.
5 feb 2014 · John Geddes thought that Burns was “A Man of Uncommon Genius” while Burns wrote to Geddes starting “Venerable Father” This was a friendship apparently built on mutual respect. Robert Burns and John Geddes first met during the winter of 1786/87 at the house of Lord Monboddo in Edinburgh.
In the history of Catholics in eighteenth-century Edinburgh, the winter of 1786 was notable for marking the first meeting of Bishop John Geddes with the poet Robert Burns. Following the first ‘Kilmarnock’, Burns had come to the capital to oversee the printing by William Creech of the enlarged Edinburgh second edition of his poems.
Life. Writings. References. Further reading. John Geddes (bishop) John Geddes (9 September 1735 – 11 February 1799) was a Scottish Catholic prelate who served as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of the Lowland District from 1779 to 1797. He was also rector of the Royal Scots College, Valladolid, from 1771 to 1780. [1] [2] [3] Life.
- Snow Kirk, Aberdeen
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- 18 March 1759, by Giuseppe Spinelli
'The Geddes Burns' is a copy of Robert Burns's 1787 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh Edition) with twenty-seven extra pages with twelve poems and songs in Burns's handwriting bound in, and a letter to Bishop John Geddes from the poet, written at Ellisland Farm.
Original t.p.: Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. By Robert Burns. Edinburgh, Printed for the author, and sold by William Creech, 1787
