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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)
He predicts little scope for redemption offering odds of 'nineteen hundred thousand to one' against the poor and needy escaping eternal damnation 'by the dogmas of Theology'.
Page four brings Burns' resolve for inspiration to the subject of Nonsense. Obscurely he instances the disciplines of Law, Physics and Divinity as offenders. Settling on Divinity 'leaving Common Sense confounded' for the rest of the page he rambles on, failing to bring any clarity to the subject. | 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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