Letter from Miss Fontenelle to Robert Burns
Sir
I have received the favour of your letter with the
enclosed address, and for both I wish to make you my best
acknowledgements. Your Muse can receive no compliment from the
slight value of my praise, but I make no doubt but
the judgement of the critic will be as fully satisfied
with the poetical Merit, as I confess the vanity of the
Actress is gratified by the kindness of the intention.
I am very thankful for your favourable
opinions - much as it goes beyond my humble merit -
I can only borrow your own Idea to thank you with --
the elay a new of the mode in which you have conferred this
obligation would make the most indifferent lines valuable,
and the excellence of the compositions would make the
roughest manners agreeable.
Friday Morning
I am, Sir, your obliged Hble Servt
Louisa Fontenelle
I have received the favour of your letter with the
enclosed address, and for both I wish to make you my best
acknowledgements. Your Muse can receive no compliment from the
slight value of my praise, but I make no doubt but
the judgement of the critic will be as fully satisfied
with the poetical Merit, as I confess the vanity of the
Actress is gratified by the kindness of the intention.
I am very thankful for your favourable
opinions - much as it goes beyond my humble merit -
I can only borrow your own Idea to thank you with --
the elay a new of the mode in which you have conferred this
obligation would make the most indifferent lines valuable,
and the excellence of the compositions would make the
roughest manners agreeable.
Friday Morning
I am, Sir, your obliged Hble Servt
Louisa Fontenelle
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/01/76
- Alt. number
- 3.6241
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Fontenelle, Louise (Author)
- Recipient
- Burns, Robert
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/01/76
- Alt. number
- 3.6241
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Fontenelle, Louise (Author)
- Recipient
- Burns, Robert
Description
Letter from Miss Fontenelle to Robert Burns, undated. The letter is undated and signed "Louise Fontenelle."
Archive information
Themes
Hierarchy
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Letters from and to Robert Burns
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a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
- Letter from Miss Fontenelle to Robert Burns
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