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Description: | Four pages made up of four separately dated sections following on from each other which Burns wrote to Cunningham from 13th to 16th February. The basic purpose was to thank him for three letters written to Burns on December 17th & 19th and January 28th. (letter no 392)
The page finishes with his apology for not replying sooner to Cunningham's three letters due to having 'not almost a spare moment'. Saying that he has the will and the ability to write and encloses a piece written in December but not then sent, as proof.
The first page of 13th Feb, apologises at some length for the Poet's shortage of proper writing paper. Quoting a line from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet which puts the reason down to poverty. He then plays with the imagined interaction between his 'one poor widowed half-sheet of Gilt' and his remaining 'plebeian foolscap pages'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1790-01-01 - 1790-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to Alexander Cunn | Go to resource |
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