BIB_ID
80716
Accession number
MA 46.43
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Mossgiel, Scotland, 1786 November 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 24.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Possibly written to Wilhelmina Alexander.
Written at top in unidentified hand "(Copy) Robert Burns to Miss W.___. A___."
Part of a collection of 54 letters and poems from Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop between 1786 and 1796. Also housed with MA 45. See related records for more information.
Written at top in unidentified hand "(Copy) Robert Burns to Miss W.___. A___."
Part of a collection of 54 letters and poems from Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop between 1786 and 1796. Also housed with MA 45. See related records for more information.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: BUDGEN 1797.
Summary
Talking about poets and using it to lead into an apology for the "liberties which a nameless stranger has taken with you in the inclosed"; writing her a poem to comfort her based on the scenery around him "I had roved out as chance directed, on the favorite haunts of my muse ..."; expressing how the nature around him is such an inspiration for a poet; adding that he is going to print a second edition of his poems, but cannot insert these verses without her permission.
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