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Letter, 1795, of Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, tipped into an edition of "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1787).
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Identifier: Acc.14467
Dates:
1787, 1795.
Letter of Jean Burns (née Armour) to Maria Riddell, concerning the children of Robert Burns, with a invoice from the sale of the letter to Norman Armour in 1970.
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Identifier: Acc.13120
Scope and Contents
This is a transcript of the text of the letter:Dumfries [ ] th 1804Madam,Mrs. Scot was so good as call on me the other day and informd me of your kind inquiry after my famaly and that you wished to kno what was become of Mr. Burns children We still live in the same house that you left us in and William Nichol is the only child I have at hom, Robert is at Glasgow College and has been two winters, he was one in Edin, it is reported and I believe...
Dates:
1804.