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Description: | Moore had received a copy of the Kilmarnock edition of Burns's poems from Mrs Dunlop in 1786 which started an ongoing correspondence of which this letter is but one. In it Moore advises the Poet to write more in English and less in Scots to widen his readership and learn more ancient and English history.
At the end of the page he praises the Poet's additional works and highlights a number which he finds particularly pleasing including 'A winters Night' and 'Green grow the rashes'.
Moore has subscribed to Burns's second edition of Poems, several copies of which he has just received from Creech. He points out to Burns that a subscriber would expect only one copy not a number proportionate to his subscription. However he reports that he has taken twelve copies and Eglinton six. | 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: | Letter of Dr John Moore to Robert Burns | Go to resource |
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