BIB_ID
80461
Accession number
MA 840.3
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1788 Jan. 4?].
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Housed with two prints and a letter from Agnes Craig M'Lehose to Burns, cataloged separately as MA 840.1-2 and MA 840.4.
Undated, but probably written in January 1788; J. De Lancey Ferguson dates this letter as Jan. 4, 1788 in his edition of Burns' letters.
Undated, but probably written in January 1788; J. De Lancey Ferguson dates this letter as Jan. 4, 1788 in his edition of Burns' letters.
Summary
Discussing religion and his character; complimenting her on the verses she sent him and informing her that he is setting them to an "old Scots air" and publishing them; asking her to write a fourth stanza to complete the work; making arrangements to call on her.
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