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Description: | Robert Burns gave ��200 to his brother Gilbert to release him from debts incurred at Mossgiel in Mauchline in 1789. He married in 1791 and moved to Dinning in Nithsdale in 1798 for 2 years. By 1800 had moved to East Lothian as a farm manager and in 1804 became Factor at an Estate near Haddington and lived at a house called Grant's Braes. It was here that he died in 1827 having sired 11 children, five of whom died at a young age.
Gilbert then explains at length the directions needed to find her way to his house in Edinburgh starting at the head of the Canongate heading East passing St Mary's Wynd and Leith Wynd until she comes to New Street which is marked.
The first page of the letter has Gilbert encouraging his sister in law to make her visit to Haddington early in the summer as come August, when the High School in Edinburgh goes on holiday, the house will be full and there will be no room for her. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1813-01-01 - 1813-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Gilbert Burns to Mrs Robert Bu | Go to resource |
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