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A talk on an invited topic sponsored by the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, and held at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, on January 12, 2019. Among topics discussed are variant texts of the song "Yestreen I had a pint o wine" [The gowden Locks of Anna], and the date, background and manuscript sources for "Fragment: Esopus to Maria." The talk is not fully referenced, and only selected powerpoint slides are included, but fuller references will be provided if and when topics are written up for formal publication. A section of the talk about the long-lost …

This article provides an overview of one of the major manuscript sources on Burns’s life, the inventory of letters addressed to Robert Burns made for his first editor Dr. James Currie, and reports a number of discoveries made about inventory entries during editorial work for a preliminary edition of the letters to Burns. Based on an illustrated talk recorded for a recent Project Symposium in late October at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies.