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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 introduces the setting for the poem as a married lady who had an adulterous affair with a ships Captain and now is writing to him in the West Indes. The first four lines are on this page.
In page two Burns continues with his dissertation on the subject of love and then realises he has wandered off his intended path which was to console Cunningham on the loss of his FiancǸe. He then changes tack and asks Cunningham for an opinion on some verses he has been working on. | 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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