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Letter from Robert Burns to David Blair, 27 August 1789
In this three page letter from Robert Burns to David Blair, Burns thanks him for sending a magazine and apologises for his delay in response due to the burden of his farm, excise duties and the birth of a son.
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Robert Burns writes Tam o’ Shanter.
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Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is published in London.
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Anne Park gives birth to Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Burns. Betty is raised by Jean Armour with the rest of Burns’s children after Anne’s death in 1793.
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Jean Armour gives birth to William Nicol Burns at Ellisland.
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Washington DC is founded as America’s capital city.
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The first Ten Amendments to the American Constitution are created.
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Robert Burns and his family leave Ellisland Farm and take up residence in Dumfries.
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Mozart dies, aged 35, in Vienna.
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The last meeting takes place between Agnes Maclehose and Robert Burns in Edinburgh. She departs for Jamaica to be briefly reconciled with her husband in January 1792.
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Burns is asked to contribute to George Thomson’s A Select Collection of Original Scotish Airs for the Voice.
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Jean Armour gives birth to Elizabeth Riddell Burns.
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is published.
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The French Republic is established.
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The second Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in a Scottish Dialect is published and the first volume of Thomson’s Select Collection.
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King Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
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France declares war against Britain.
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Robert Burns is appointed Acting Supervisor of the Excise.
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James Glencairn Burns is born to Jean Armour Burns.
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William Blake publishes the combined Songs of Innocence and Experience.
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Burns assists in organising the Royal Dumfries Volunteers, declaring the Oath of Allegiance and signing the Rules, Regulations and By-Laws of the militia.
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Letter from Robert Burns to David Blair, 25th August 1795
Letter of Robert Burns to David Blair, Birmingham, dated "Dumfries, 25th Aug: 1795" 4 page quarto.