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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 years.
The journal of the Poet's Highland Tour is on display in the Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway.
This exhibit is Burns' Journal of his Highland Tour in 1787 containing 35 pages in his handwriting, which he carried in his pocket and wrote up as required. He travelled up to Inverness via Bannockburn an Culloden returning via Aberdeen, his relatives in Stonehaven and down to Edinburgh. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1787-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Burns' Journal of his tour in the Highla | Go to resource |
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