Letter from Robert Burns to Robert Andrew Riddell, 22 September 1794
My dear Sir,
You must have by this time have
set me down as one of the most unkind &
ungrateful of the sons of me, not untill now
to have answered your extremely obliging letter.
The fact is, I was determined to answer you
in the way of my trade: in a poetic Epistle
in one of our Newspapers. I have not yet
been able to arrange my Numbers, to please
myself; but if the Muse is not extremely restive
you shall hear, in my own way, from,
My dear Sir,
your obliged friend & humble serv.t
Rob.t Burns
Dumfries
22 Sept. 1794
You must have by this time have
set me down as one of the most unkind &
ungrateful of the sons of me, not untill now
to have answered your extremely obliging letter.
The fact is, I was determined to answer you
in the way of my trade: in a poetic Epistle
in one of our Newspapers. I have not yet
been able to arrange my Numbers, to please
myself; but if the Muse is not extremely restive
you shall hear, in my own way, from,
My dear Sir,
your obliged friend & humble serv.t
Rob.t Burns
Dumfries
22 Sept. 1794
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/01/107
- Alt. number
- 3.6342
- Date
- 22 September 1794
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
- Recipient
- Riddell, Robert Andrew
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/01/107
- Alt. number
- 3.6342
- Date
- 22 September 1794
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
- Recipient
- Riddell, Robert Andrew
Description
Letter from Robert Burns to Robert Andrew Riddell, dated Dumfries, 22 September 1794. A minor landscape painter, referring to a gift presented by Riddell to Robert Burns.
Archive information
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Letters from and to Robert Burns
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- Letter from Robert Burns to Robert Andrew Riddell, 22 September 1794
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