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Description: | A one page letter from Burns asking a Glasgow acquaintance James Hamilton to pass on payment, for poems which he has purchased, to a Glasgow Poet Gavin Turnbull whom he has been unable to contact. (letter no 332)
James Hamilton was a Grocer in Glasgow's' Trongate whom Burns knew and trusted. In a letter a month later he confirms the name of the carrier and amount but commiserates with Hamilton on his misfortunes which were presumed to be business ones.
Burns explains that he knows no carriers in his new 'country' around Dumfries so he will use a Mauchline carrier whom he trusts to carry the money he owes Turnbull (12/6d) for five poems, up to James Hamilton in Glasgow for him to pass on to Turnbull. He then reflects that the people around Dumfries are no different from those in Glasgow and that many 'are not what they pretend to be'. | 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 James Hamilton | Go to resource |
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