Letter from Charles Douglas to Patrick Douglas, 8 August
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/04/546
- Alt. number
- 3.6139
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Douglas, Charles (Author)
- Recipient
- Douglas, Patrick
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/04/546
- Alt. number
- 3.6139
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Douglas, Charles (Author)
- Recipient
- Douglas, Patrick
Description
Letter from Charles Douglas to Patrick Douglas, dated 8th August.
This is one of two preserved letters relating to the provision of a man to fill the post of assistant overseer on the sugar plantation of Charles Douglas in Jamaica. Here he writes to his brother Dr Patrick Douglas about financial matters. On the reverse of the letter is Dr Douglas' reply, which relates the hiring of a man (Burns) to sail with Captain Brown to Jamaica. Burns had met with Dr Douglas in August to arrange the details.
Burns never made this journey to the West Indies. The growing success of his recently published edition of poems and the birth of his twins to Jean convinced him to stay in Scotland.
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Correspondence and other documents relating to Robert Burns
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a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
- Letter from Charles Douglas to Patrick Douglas, 8 August