Explore correspondence between senders and recipients of letters and documents in the Burns Collection.
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To Miss Ferrier
This poem is addressed to Miss Jane Ferrier (1767 - 1846), the daughter of James Ferrier and sister of the novelist Susan Ferrier. She met Burns during the summer of 1787, when she was an Edinburgh society favourite. She asked the Bard for a poem and he sent her this epistle along with the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair.