Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, 25 August 1821

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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

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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.

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Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, 25 August 1821