(Robert, poet, 1759-96) Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Sir", 1p., sm. 4to, Dumfries, 16th January 1794, returning a book and sending a poem, "I have much pleasure in sending you per the Messenger from Lochmaben the Book you so kindly lent me - It has been my solace in many a dolefull Hour when I have been among the Hills and my dreary time here - I have only to give you my Thanks as under my Circumstances I have no other Ways or Means of making any Thanks or shewing my Solitude for your Kindness to me, unless you accept the enclosed Poem or Song of Our own Scottish Soil which may affect you - Under all Circumstances remember me as your deeply obliged and faithful friend", a few small tears to edges, folds, browned and creased. *** Early in 1794 Burns was in "low spirits & blue devils" and drinking too much, "yet he managed to propose a somewhat self-interested reorganization of the Dumfries excise divisions (the plan was not adopted) and to send James Johnson forty-one songs that he had collected or composed." - Oxford DNB.
(Robert, poet, 1759-96) Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Sir", 1p., sm. 4to, Dumfries, 16th January 1794, returning a book and sending a poem, "I have much pleasure in sending you per the Messenger from Lochmaben the Book you so kindly lent me - It has been my solace in many a dolefull Hour when I have been among the Hills and my dreary time here - I have only to give you my Thanks as under my Circumstances I have no other Ways or Means of making any Thanks or shewing my Solitude for your Kindness to me, unless you accept the enclosed Poem or Song of Our own Scottish Soil which may affect you - Under all Circumstances remember me as your deeply obliged and faithful friend", a few small tears to edges, folds, browned and creased. *** Early in 1794 Burns was in "low spirits & blue devils" and drinking too much, "yet he managed to propose a somewhat self-interested reorganization of the Dumfries excise divisions (the plan was not adopted) and to send James Johnson forty-one songs that he had collected or composed." - Oxford DNB.
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