Identity area
Reference code
Crewe MS/46
Title
Visiting book of Robert Burns’s cottage
Date(s)
- 1841–5 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 volume (32 x 20 cm), containing 249 leaves. Bound in leather.
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
The armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe, is pasted inside the front cover.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The volume contains a table of the names and residences of visitors to Robert Burns’s cottage at Alloway, with comments, verses, etc. At the front is a notice dated 9 Aug. 1941 headed ‘Burns’ Cottage. | Book for entering Visiters’ [sic] Names.’ On the… read more
System of arrangement
Foliated 1–247, with an unnumbered leaf at the front and another at the back.
Conditions of access and use area
Language of material
- English
Access points
Name access points
- Burns, Robert (1759–1796), poet (Subject)