Describes and evaluates the varying accounts given by the Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg (1770-1835) of his first encounter with the poems of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), exploring inconsistencies of dating and differences in detail between the best-known version, the Memoir of the Author\u27s Life in Hogg\u27s Altrive Tales(1832) and the earlier Memoir in his The Mountain Bard (1807), and discussing also two other versions, a long note in the Hogg-Motherwell edition of Burns (1834) and a letter Hogg wrote to an unidentified correspondent that same year. Briefly analyses and quotes Hogg\u27s memorial poem on Robert Burns, Robin\u27s Awa\u27
