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Letter from Robert Burns to William Cruikshank, 8 October 1787
Burns describes his stay with Sir William Murray at Auchtertyre as being 'exceedingly comfortably situated' and remarks about being 'storm-steaded' at Herveyston, where Burns is thought to have met with and proposed to Margaret Chalmers.
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Robert Burns meets Agnes Maclehose in Edinburgh.
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Robert Burns and Agnes Maclehose begin exchanging love letters.
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Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) dies in Rome.
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Burns returns to Tarbolton to see Jean Armour, who is pregnant.
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Letter from Robert Burns to William Cruikshank, 3 March 1788
Robert Burns wrote this three page letter from Mauchline after returning from Edinburgh in spring of 1788. He thanks William Cruickshank for allowing him to stay with him in Edinburgh over the previous winter, he relocates Jean Armour, now eight months pregnant, at the house of John Mackenzie the local doctor.
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Jean Armour gives birth to twin girls, who both die, unnamed, within a month.