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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 has then drawn a line across the page and started again with lines which represent the continuation of the 'Passions Cry' from about line 12 with some differences from the published version.
The eight lines at the start of page three go with the four lines on the previous page as a single set and appear to be an early version of the opening twelve lines of his Poem 'Passions Cry' (poem no 428). They clearly express the anguish of a woman charged with adultery. | 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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