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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)
His final barb is left for 'godly women' in an uncharacteristic slight on the fair sex. Perhaps the rum is too good as his final toast in the paragraph suggests.
By page five Burns's toddy driven pen determines that 'Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical'. He rails against those 'children of Sanctity' who go about with their noses in the air which he associates with the titled classes looking down on 'the many-aproned sons of Mechanical life'. | 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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