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Description: | These Highland Journal entries written by Robert Burns have been scanned as 20 two-up 'pages'. The first 5 pages are more like diary entries, with the Journal proper starting on the 6th page. The journey lasted 22 days and covered 600 miles from Edinburgh to Inverness, along the Moray coastline to Peterhead, down to Aberdeen, Perth and back to Edinburgh.
Burns conducted a number of Journeys around parts of Scotland to gather material and an understanding of the country. This Highland Journey was his longest and he was accompanied by his schoolmaster friend William Nichol, travelling in a horse drawn covered carriage.
Page 2 has the name of Mrs Chalmers and Miss H whom Burns had expected to meet at Herviston. He had a particular interest in meeting her daughter Margaret but she was not there at the time. He has noted the names of the people he met at dinner at Stirling on the Monday night, with the next day's appointment. | 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: | Journal of Robert Burns's Tour of the Hi | Go to resource |
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