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Description: | Four page letter Burns writes to his friend Cunningham to commiserate with him on the loss of his fiancǸe to a Surgeon in Edinburgh which Burns had spotted in a recent newspaper. He asks his friend to comment on two poems which he encloses (letter no 307)
Burns however deviates somewhat from his intended path and rhapsodises on a theme of love for the rest of the page. He confirms that from his own experience love is the source from which all the pleasures and all the happiness flows.
This first page is where Burns, having learned from a newspaper report that his friend Cunningham has lost his fiancǸe Ann, sets out to write him a 'consolatory epistle'. He recognises Cunningham would take this as a serious matter in view of him being a person for whom 'Love enters deeply into their existence'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1789-01-01 - 1789-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to Alexander Cunn | Go to resource |
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