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Letter from Robert Burns to Maria Riddell
Letter from Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, undated, arranging a meeting and other personal matters. Docketed '4' by Maria Riddell.
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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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To Maria
Burns wrote this poem for his friend Maria Riddell. It was written in response to Lord Buchan's assertion that 'Woman ought not always to be flattered grossly, or not spoken to at all'. In these short lines, Robert proves just the opposite.
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Letter from Robert Burns to Maria Riddell
Letter from Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, concerning the poem "Farewell, thou stream"; Shortly after this R.B. substituted "Maria" in the second line with "Eliza" following his quarrel with the Riddell family.
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Letter from Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, January 1794
Letter from Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, dated January 1794