Description
91 manuscript pp., some interleaved with additional manuscript music and lyrics, including lyrics for Oh my Bonny Highland Laddie, The White Cockade, Bonny Charlie and music & lyrics for songs such as Burns's O'er the Water to Charlie, My Heart's in the Highlands, Welcome Royal Charlie, You're welcome Charlie Stuart, Fallen Heroin [sic.] and The Last of the Stuarts, also three songs in European languages, one set of interleaved lyrics dated 1822, contemporary quarter morocco album
Footnote
Provenance:
Threipland Collection, Fingask Castle, purchased privately
Private collection
Note: By the time Robert Burns wrote O'er the Water to Charlie in 1788, Jacobites and the ideology could no longer be considered a powerful political force. However, the romance of 'The King over the Water' remained and Jacobite songs became a popular Scottish folk genre.