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Description: | In the two page letter Burns acknowledges and welcomes Brown's news. Then he explains his new job with the Excise and goes on to reflect on their long friendship and invites Brown and his wife to visit him at Ellisland. (letter no 369)
Captain Richard Brown, a ships captain, was a long standing friend of Burns from his Irvine flax working days. Brown has now settled down to married life in Port Glasgow and has written two recent letters to Burns to arrange a meeting with him in Ayrshire.
On this first page Burns aplogises for his inattention to Brown's two earlier letters due to lack of time and admits that this reply is far shorter than he would have wished 'confessing debt and craving days', after which he welcomes Brown on his safe return and family happiness. Burns expresses himself 'extremely lucky' to have obtained a new position with the Excise, but that this ten parish Division with its complex business leaves him little time for anything else but rest. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1789-01-01 - 1789-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to Captain Richar | Go to resource |
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