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Afton Manuscript
A collection of his later poems presented by Burns to Mrs Alexander Stewart of Stair in 1791. It consisted of thirteen then unpublished poems, including 'Tam o' Shanter', 'Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson', 'The Lament of Mary Queen of Scots' and both versions of 'Lines in Friar's Carse Hermitage'. In view of the inclusion of 'Tam o' Shanter' it is strange to find Burns writing in his Preface; 'Many Verses on which an Author would by no means rest his reputation in print may yet amuse an idle moment in manuscript; and many Poems from the locality of the subject may be unentertaining or unintelligible to those who are strangers to that locality. Most, if not all, the following Poems are in one or other of these predicaments; and the Author begs whoever into whose hands they may fall not to publish what he himself thought proper to suppress.' Mrs Stewart afterwards built a house on the Enterkine estate, which she called Afton Lodge, after her father's estate. The small quarto volume of sixty-eight pages, sewn in limp boards, is now in the Cottage Museum, Alloway, gifted by Mrs Stewart's grandson, William Allason Cunningham, in 1880. See Stair Manuscript.
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