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Letter from Robert Burns to Captain William Johnston, with 'The Rights of Women - Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night'

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Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/01/98
Alt. number
3.6326
Date
27 November 1792
On display
No
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)
Recipient
Johnston, Captain William

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Letter from Robert Burns to Captain William Johnston, with 'The Rights of Women - Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night'.

Dated "Dumfries, 27th November, 1792". Enclosing, a copy of "The rights of a Woman- Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night". Miss Fontenelle was a London Actress who came to the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, in October 1789.


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  1. Letters from and to Robert Burns ( )
  2. Letter from Robert Burns to Captain William Johnston, with 'The Rights of Women - Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night'

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