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Description: | Two page letter from Gilbert Burns to his sister-in-law Jean, who he addresses as Dear Sister in which he chides her for delayed news of her safe return home and lets her know of the latest news from his family and the state of health of her Mother-in-law.
He conveys news of her son James out in India from a mutual acquaintance and anticipating that she may have also heard from the same source, asks to be advised of any additional news from India.
Gilbert opens this September dated letter by expressing his concern at the tardy news from Jean that she had arrived back home in Dumfries from her summer visit to Edinburgh, Having worried that she might have been involved in a road accident at the Etteric-stane Brae black spot. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1814-01-01 - 1814-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Gilbert Burns to Mrs Robert Bu | Go to resource |
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