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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 closes the letter with a flowery finish wishing well to Cunningham and his wife, almost in the form of a prayer.
The final page includes early versions of the third and fourth verses of the poem 'Saw Ye Bonie Lesley' (poem no 339) which Burns wrote having escorted her and her Father's family for fifteen miles during their journey in Dumfriesshire. He writes that he composed the ballad while riding home after seeing them off. | 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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