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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.
He then describes where he would expect the coach to stop and the best way to get to the flat from there, anticipating that his sister in law will require a porter to carry her bags. Next he mentions that he has recently returned from a jaunt to Kilmarnock where his 13 year old daughter has been left for a recuperative sea bathing holiday at Troon.
Gilbert continues on page two furnishing Mrs Robert Burns with the directions to his flat in the Canongate in Edinburgh which he explains in detail. He lives on the third landing of the first stair in the first close on the north side of the Canongate after New Street and has a brass name plate on the door. | 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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