KDC384146 Handwriting and signature of Robert Burns, 1787 (pen & ink on paper) by Burns, Robert (1759-96); Private Collection; (add.info.: Robert Burns (1759-96); Scottish poet; the letter includes deprecatory remarks by the poet on his pretensions to gentility with the celebrated and ironic quotation from Alexander Pope\'s \'Essay on Man\': "my ancient but ignoble blood has crept through scoundrels since the flood\'); Scottish, out of copyright.