"WHO WROTE BURNS?"
TO THB KDtTOB OF THE I'KESS. Sir,—Although you profess to treat with levity the question of the authorship of tlie poems which are popularly suppos-ed to be written by Rooert Burns, still I am sure there can be mo question that these same nrorks were written by a man r.anfc-d Chisholm. who lived in Glasgow about, the same time that Burns Ih'ed 'his dissolute life. My grandfather has in his po.sieseion a leUer written by Cuisholm's son, in which h-e refers to poems that his father wrote, including three more verses of the "Coming through the Rye." There are very few Scotchmen who still profess to believe that a man of Burns's low habits ever wrote the works which bear his name. Thinking men all the world over now recognise that the works popularly supposed to be written by great men in the pa#t have always been written by somebody else.—Yours, etc., SCOT.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11493, 28 January 1903, Page 5
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156"WHO WROTE BURNS?" Press, Volume LX, Issue 11493, 28 January 1903, Page 5
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