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Description: | A seven page letter which Burns writes to his friend Cunningham replying to two of his letters and enclosing his first version of the song 'Ye flowery banks' (the Banks o Doon) and his version of an old Jacobite song both of which he included in Johnson's Musical Museum Vol 4. (letter no 441)
Finally he bids Cunningham good night by quoting the last verse of a poem titled 'Out over the Forth' which Burns is in the throes of composing, 'I have just now on the tapis?'
On this last page Burns asks Cunningham, if he likes the song, to include it in his repertoire when he next applies 'the charms of your delightful voice' - 'to the friends whom you indulge in that pleasure'. He then notes how the time approaches midnight by quoting line 69 from Tam o' Shanter. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1791-01-01 - 1791-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to Alexander Cunn | Go to resource |
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