Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns by Alec Ross

[RJNorton]

Roger, A "Postscript" to the Alec Ross initial quotation:

Postscript – Lincoln’s lifelong fascination with Burns began when he met a guy called Jack Kelso, an immigrant Scot from Govan, when he was wee. Kelso gave Abe the collected works of Burns. Never looked back. Kelso, incidentally, was reputed to have one of the largest private libraries in America. He was previously a Glasgow schoolteacher.

That is what I thought, too. Possibly Isaac Arnold and Francis Marion Van Natter are outliers.