Add MS 74262

BURNS PAPERS. VOL. III (ff. 141). Family papers; 1761-1963.

1. f. 1. Copy of Burns's birth certificate, 1858; possibly the one found by a demolition worker following a wartime bomb attack; see Kent, op. cit., p. 317; [1900-1943].

2. f. 2. Burns's vaccination certificate; 23 Nov. 1858.

3. ff. 3-4. Apprenticeship indenture of Burns, as an engineer to Thomas Horn, engineer, of Millbank; see also Add. MS 46288, f. 5; 25 Feb. 1874.

4. f. 7. Postcard photograph of Burns's house, Alverstoke, 110 North Side, Clapham Common; [circa 1914?].

5. ff. 8-16. Land Registry papers rel. to Alverstoke, Clapham Common; copies, 1921.

6. ff. 17-20. Informal autograph will of Burns, 30 Sept. 1903; with draft will (formal outline of will only); not autograph. Neither is recorded in Kent, op. cit., p. 309; 1939.

7. ff. 21-22. Order of service for Burns's funeral; 4 Feb. 1943.

8. ff. 23-31. Letters to Mr and Mrs Fuller, from Haslett and Co., funeral directors of Wandsworth, relating to a memorial to Burns; preceded by two bills for Burns's funeral, 26 Jan., 5 Feb. 1943; mostly typescript, signed; 1943-1944.

9. ff. 32-55. Newscuttings; obituary notices and letters, and reviews of works on Burns; 1943-1963. Printed.

10. ff. 56-96. Family genealogical notes by Burns, with letters to him on the subject; with some miscellaneous later notes relating to Burns; 1893-1913, [aft. 1943?].

11. ff. 97-120. Robert Burns: pamphlets, article and newscutting relating to Robert Burns; with a quotation from the latter's Epitaph on William Muir [lines 1-7]; in John Burns's hand; the lines appeared on Burns's headstone; see Kent, op. cit , pp. 313 -334; 1896-1924, n.d. Partly printed.

i. ff. 97-106. William Will, Burns Centenary./ The Home of Burns' ancestors, 1896. Signed on cover by John Burns; some pencil markings by Burns (?); printed; 1924.

ii. f. 107. Family tree of surviving grandchildren of Robert Burns; from the D[aily] C[hronicle]; 23 March 1908.

iii. ff. 108-118. John Drinkwater, Robert Burns; address to the Ninety Burns Club of Edinburgh, 25 Jan. 1924. Presentation copy, signed by the author and by John Burns; March 1924.

iv. ff. 119-120. J. Monro, 'The Line of Robert Burns'; article from The Strand Magazine; n.d. Printed.

12. ff. 121-122. Sir Thomas More: photograph of portrait of More; signed by Burns, N[ational] P[ortrait] Gallery, 11 March 1922; with photograph of overmantel once at More's Chelsea house, removed to Saffron Walden by More's wife; annotations by Burns; n.d.

13. ff. 123-141. Burns, Gale and Moore families; miscellaneous documents on vellum and paper.

i. f. 123. Apprenticeship indenture of Stephen, son of John Gale, sawyer of Deptford, to Philip Bart, shipwright; 25 June 1761.

ii. f. 124. Indenture of John Garth Moore to Benjamin Slade, shipwright, etc., of the Royal Dockyard, Deptford; 8 Oct. 1789.

iii. f. 125. Marriage certificate of John Moore and Ann Hill, 14 Dec. 1796.

iv. f. 126. Indenture of John Gale as a caulker in the Royal Dockyard; 17 May 1816.

v. f. 127. Marriage certificate of John Gale above and Charlotte Moore; 10 June 1821.

vi. f. 128. Baptismal certificate of Joseph, son of John and Ann Moore; 17 Aug. 1834.

vii. f. 129. Baptismal certificate of Mary, daughter of John and Charlotte Moore; 27 Sept. 1835.

viii. f. 130. Baptismal certificate of Celina Gale, 20 Oct. 1839.

ix. f. 131. Receipt of purchase of burial plot in Morden by Charlotte Burns, 12 Dec. 1906, with names of Gale family members interred; 1906-1937.

x. ff. 132-141. Marriage and death certificates of Burns's sister Barbara, and of her husband Edward James Boswell; 1870, 1923, and 1936 respectively; and birth certificates of their children Alice Alexandra (later Fuller) and Edward James, 1880, 1872; all except Barbara Boswell's death certificate seem to be copies of 21-22 Dec. 1943, and may relate to legal matters arising after Burns' death; 1870-1943. For E. J. Boswell see also below.