Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop (Volume 2); Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (for even then 1 was a Rhymer) that my heart glowed with a wish to be able to make a song on him equal to his merits. I have only been able to find you five copies: they are all I can command. I am thinking to go to Edinburgh in a week or two at farthest, to throw off a second Impression of my book; but on my return, I shall certainly do myself the honor to wait on you, and thank you in person for the oblidging notice you have been pleased to take of, Madam, your much indebted and very humble servt. Robert BURNS. Mossgibl, iyh Nov. 1786. (i) Leglen Wood is on the banks of the Ayr, near Auchen- cruive. It was from Mount Oliphant that Burns as a boy had walked to Leglen Wood. Burns did not visit Dunlop at this time. He set out for Edinburgh on the 27th of November. On the i4th December Creech advertised the new edition, and Burns straightway sent copies of the subscription-sheet to his friends. Here occurs the first break in the correspondence. Mrs. Dunlop must have replied to Burns's letter of the isth; his answer, received by her on the 3Oth, must have been written on the 22nd or 23rd December, having been, as she says, a week on the road. Neither of those letters, so far as is known, is extant. Ad. Mr. Robt. Burns, care of Mr. Creech, Bookseller, Cross, Edr. Dunlop, 3oM Dec. 1786. Sir?I have only this moment yours, and at the same moment the inclosed from Dr. Moore,1 now of London, to whom I had sent a copy of your Poems as the most acceptable present I could make to that person whose taste I valued most and from whose friendship I have reaped most instruction as well as infinite pleasure. His literary knowledge, his fame as an author, his activity in befriending that merit of which his own mind is formed to feel the full force?all led me to believe I c...