BIB_ID
284080
Accession number
MA 44.1
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1787 Dec. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to Brown at Irvine.
Includes verses by Agnes M'Lehose on p. 3-4.
Part of a collection of four autograph lettters from Robert Burns; items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 44.1-4).
Includes verses by Agnes M'Lehose on p. 3-4.
Part of a collection of four autograph lettters from Robert Burns; items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 44.1-4).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from R.B. Gilkison in Dunedin, New Zealand, 1903.
Summary
Telling him that it was his suggestion that Burns should send his verses to a magazine that first "encouraged [Burns] to endeavour at the character of a Poet"; mentioning that as soon as a "bruised limb will permit" he intends to return to Ayrshire and see Brown; describing a "young Edinr. widow [Agnes M'Lehose] who has wit and beauty ... murderously fatal" for whom he is "ready to hang [him]self"; transcribing the verses she recently sent him.
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