Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, 12 February 1819
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/03/04/21
- Alt. number
- 3.6432
- Date
- 12 February 1819
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Gilbert (Author)
- Recipient
- Burns, Jean Armour
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/03/04/21
- Alt. number
- 3.6432
- Date
- 12 February 1819
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Gilbert (Author)
- Recipient
- Burns, Jean Armour
Description
Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, dated Grant's Braes, 12 February 1819.
Letter concerns family matters and a concern that his nephew James "should not be sufficiently acquainted with the fugitive nature of money, for though I should regret above all things that money should be the idol of his worship, yet I know his kind and generous disposition would subject him to extreme suffering were he inadvertently to indulge in expence (the besetting sin of the present age), which might prevent him paying his accounts, or remitting his Mother's annuity punctually."
Archive information
Themes
Hierarchy
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Letters, documents and ephemera regarding the family of Robert Burns
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a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
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Letters and Documents relating to Gilbert Burns
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materials grouped together because they are of a similar type)
- Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, 12 February 1819
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