Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to George Ellis, [1803 June or July].

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Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to George Ellis, [1803 June or July].

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Concerning the age of the romance of "Sir Trsitrem," discussing Thomas the Rhymer, Chretien de Troyes, and the King of Navarre's knowledge of the history and their relationship to Douce's fragments; alluding to the possibility of the romance having been "founded in fact;" discussing the origin of metrical and prose romances; questioning the possibility of there having been an "earlier Thomas," and discussing the life of Thomas the Rhymer. Hoping that Ellis will one day visit the border; and sending a copy of Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum, which "thought he tunes are simple, & often bad sets, contains much more original Scottish Music than I ever saw else where."

1 item (5 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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