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referred to the song, and himself makes a little English experiment to the same tune, in a conciliatory address to Mrs. Riddel. As in these letters Burns calls the air 'Roy's Wife,' while his 'Ladie Onlie,' written for Johnson's 'Museum' in 1787 is set to the tune 'The Ruffian's Rant,' we get an
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She was the daughter of "Lieutenant Joseph Grant, late of Colonel Montgomerie's regiment of highlanders", and was probably born about 1745, near
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Louis Stott, ‘Grant, Elizabeth (1745/6–1828)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006
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border of Mrs. Grant's native county. There are fragments of a legendary lyric with several of the same references, but
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This article is about the Scottish Songwriter. For the American Singer, Songwriter and Poet, see
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physician, and she died in Bath about 1814. A portrait of her was at
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to which it was sung. Writing to Thomson in 1793 and 1794,
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approximate date for the appearance of Mrs. Grant's song.
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superseded those, besides appropriating to itself the old
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