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Description: | Letter which Burns wrote in March 1787 acknowledging receipt of a letter from his friend James Candlish and explaining why he had taken so long to reply. (letter no 89)
Candlish had written in response to a request from Burns, namely 'help in getting a song they had sung together at school'.
Page one of two. This page reads from 'My ever dear old acquaintance' to 'may mislead the'. Burns explains that it is not 'the intoxication of good fortune' making him indifferent to old friendships, but that he simply can't find the suitable words to make a 'good letter' and he is now writing to ensure his silence is not misinterpreted. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1787-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to James Candlish | Go to resource |
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