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Letter from Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop of Dunlop 15 April 1787

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Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/01/115
Alt. number
3.6350
Date
15 April 1787
On display
Yes
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)

Description

Letter from Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop of Dunlop, dated Edinburgh, 15 April 1787.

After the death of her elderly husband in 1785, Mrs Dunlop (nee Francis Anna Wallace) suffered from depression and a friend gave her a copy of Burns's poems which prompted her to write to the poet; the friendship between the two continued until the poet's death. This is a letter thanking the recipient for her interest in his poetry.

When writing to well-to-do Mrs Dunlop, Robert used grand and expressive language, often making references to literature – here he quotes Shakespeare’s Othello.

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