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Description: | About this time in 1792 Creech was preparing a 2nd Edinburgh edition of Burns's Poems for which Burns had provided an additional 50 pages of material. He had instructed Alexander Tytler in Edinburgh to handle the interface and proof reading with his publisher Creech.
Alexander Fraser Tytler was a lawyer and Professor of History at Edinburgh University as well as being a minor poet and essayist in his own right. He later was the Judge-Advocate of Scotland. About the time of this letter he succeeded to his father's estate as he reports of his death to Burns.
In page one Tytler explains that he has taken so long to reply to Burns's last letter on account of the serious illness of his wife who has been abed for eight weeks and is only now out of danger. It is only at the end of this page that he begins to tell Burns how he reacted to his latest bundle of work. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1792-01-01 - 1792-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Alex Fraser Tytler to Robert B | Go to resource |
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