Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, 25 August 1821
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/03/04/26
- Alt. number
- 3.6437
- Date
- 25 August 1821
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Gilbert (Author)
- Recipient
- Burns, Jean Armour
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/03/04/26
- Alt. number
- 3.6437
- Date
- 25 August 1821
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Gilbert (Author)
- Recipient
- Burns, Jean Armour
Description
Letter of Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, dated Grant's Braes 25 August 1821.
Letter concerns family matters, particularly the positions achieved by his various sons (two now in Ireland) and what the womenfolk had been up to - white-seam sowing and dressmaking. He makes mention of a bronze statue of our Poet being proposed and that a Mr Flaxman the Sculptor from London is in Edinburgh to "fix the spot on which it is to be placed". Addressed to Mrs Burns, Dumfries, postmarked Dumfries 4 SEP 1821.
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, 25 August 1821
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