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Description: | A rambling seven page letter Burns writes to Cunningham in an inebriated late night session, to acknowledge several past events. He expounds on the supernatural, nonsense, religious nonsense, and matrimony issues at some length, finishing with a poem written about a recent meeting with Miss Leslie Bailie. (letter no 506)
Burns then admits to being 'a poor devil who is quite jaded in the attempt to share half an idea among half a hundred words; to fill up four quarto pages, while he has not got one single sentence of recollection, information, or remark, worth putting down on paper for!'
Page three finds Burns still on his supernatural quest for inspiration but then seeking a gentler inspiration suited to a 'prating Advocate' or a 'tea-bibbing Gossip' whose tittle-tattle ('clishmaclaiver') runs at a 'light-horse gallop'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1792-01-01 - 1792-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to Alexander Cunn | Go to resource |
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