Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, 12 February 1819

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Archive number: NTS/02/25/BRN/03/04/21
Alt. number: 3.6432
Date: 12 February 1819
On display: No
Creator: Burns, Gilbert (Author)
Recipient: Burns, Jean Armour

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Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, dated Grant's Braes, 12 February 1819.

Letter concerns family matters and a concern that his nephew James "should not be sufficiently acquainted with the fugitive nature of money, for though I should regret above all things that money should be the idol of his worship, yet I know his kind and generous disposition would subject him to extreme suffering were he inadvertently to indulge in expence (the besetting sin of the present age), which might prevent him paying his accounts, or remitting his Mother's annuity punctually."

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Letter from Gilbert Burns to Jean Burns, 12 February 1819