Letter from Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop of Dunlop, 25 June 1794
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/01/121
- Alt. number
- 3.6356
- Date
- 25 June 1794
- On display
- Yes
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/01/121
- Alt. number
- 3.6356
- Date
- 25 June 1794
- On display
- Yes
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
Description
Letter from Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop of Dunlop, dated Castle Douglas, 25 June 1794, Written from a 'solitary inn'.
In the letter, Robert Burns seeks Mrs Dunlop's opinion on the proposed poem "I am just going to trouble your critical patience with the first sketch of a stanza I have been framing as I passed along the road. - The subject is, LIBERTY: you know... how dear the theme is to me".
Archive information
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Letters from and to Robert Burns
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- Letter from Robert Burns to Mrs Dunlop of Dunlop, 25 June 1794
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