BIB_ID
294014
Accession number
MA 50.21
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1796 Apr.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr / Pr favor of Mrs. Hyslop." Docketed "Apl 1796 Mr. Burns ment[ionin]g his severe illness."
Localization from relationship of the letter to Mrs. Hyslop; dating from docket and Ferguson, p. 378.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for more information.
Localization from relationship of the letter to Mrs. Hyslop; dating from docket and Ferguson, p. 378.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for more information.
Summary
Discussing his illness, noting that "Rheumatism, Cold & Fever, have formed, to me, a terrible Trinity in Unity, which makes me close my eyes in misery, & open them without hope" and that has been contemplating mortality. Stating that this letter will be delivered by Mrs. Hyslop, Landlady of the Globe Tavern (in Dumfries), "which for these many years has been my HOWFF, & where our friend Clarke & I have had many a merry squeeze." Praising David Allan's etchings and discussing them. Mentioning [Robert] Cleghorn.
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