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.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
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 spine is stamped ‘Visiting Book of Robert Burns’ Cottage 1841 to 1845’.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Foliated 1–247, with an unnumbered leaf at the front and another at the back.
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Existence and location of originals
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Name access points
- Burns, Robert (1759–1796), poet (Subject)