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Letter from Robert Burns to Captain Robert Riddell, 27 September 1791
Letter from Robert Burns to Captain Robert Riddell, 27 September 1791, undate but written at Ellisland, on personal matters.
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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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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, inscribed to Captain Robert Riddell by Robert Burns
Presentation copy, with inscription, from the Poet To Robert Riddel Esquire of Glenriddel.