Explore correspondence between senders and recipients of letters and documents in the Burns Collection.
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Letter from Robert Burns to William Niven, 29 July 1780
William Niven had been at Hugh Roger's school in Kirkoswald when Burns was there in 1775, and who was afterwards a merchant in Maybole. This set of letters is dated from Lochlee (Lochlea) between July, 1780, and June, 1781, and are the earliest letters of Robert Burns in the National Trust for Scotland Collection.
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Letter from Robert Burns to William Niven, 3 November 1780
William Niven had been at Hugh Roger's school in Kirkoswald when Burns was there in 1775, and who was afterwards a merchant in Maybole. This series of three letters are dated from Lochlee (Lochlea) between July, 1780, and June, 1781, and are the earliest letters of the poet known
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Robert Burns goes to Irvine to learn flax-making.
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Robert Burns is inducted as a Freemason into Lodge St David, no 174, Tarbolton.
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Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published after his death.
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Immanuel Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason.
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Letter from Robert Burns to William Niven, 12 June 1781
This is a two page letter in which Robert Burns wrote to his school friend William Niven now a merchant in Maybole. He deals with the lack of progress in his love life and mentions seeing William's cousin in the local kirk.