Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — Another Burns Relic. [ARTICLE]

Another Burns Relic.

There has come to light in one of the auction rooms an interesting relic of Robert Burns. It Is an ordinary businesslike tumbler, Inclosed in an oak case lined with velvet and secured by a Brahmin k?y. The tumbler has engraved on it the following Inscription: “This glass once the property of Robert Burns, was presented by the poet's widow to James Robinson, Esq., and given by his widow to her son in-law, Maj. James Glencalrn Burns, 1840.” 4 The James Robinson to whom Jean Armour gave the relic was a Sunderland gentleman who became, by marriage, connected with the Burns faml'y. Ths box Is made from one of the piles of Old London Bridge, with some llghtei places of oak, relics of the Royal George.—Scotsman.