Today people in Scotland often hold a Burns supper isa celebration of the life and poetry of Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), the author of many Scots poems.
National Library of Scotland 1971 recording of a burns supper
National Records of Scotland has some text and images of official recordss relatng to him including baptism, his work as an exciseman and court cases !
'Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect'
was the first collection of Burns's work to appear in print. Published in Kilmarnock by John Wilson in 1786. The National Library of Scotland has an edition online . Look inside for the famous poem to a Mouse .
The National Library also has an online Broadsides of the Street Collection that includes some poems read at early Burns celebrations
and an exhibition of illustrations that appeared in his early printed editions