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Description: | Letter written in November 1787where Burns is writing in response to Hoy's 'Kind letter'. (The librarian had complied with the Poet's request to 'beg a copy of His Grace of Gordon's words to it' - 'Cauld Kail in Aberdeen'. Letter no 145)
Burns was collecting material for the Scottish Musical Museum work of James Johnson an engraver in Edinburgh and had having heard the words of the song from the Duke of Gordon on an earlier visit to Gordon Castle, was anxious to include them in the new work.
Page two of two. On this page Burns expresses that the Duke's song 'charms me', and goes on to compare the work of the Duke with other poets whom he respects. He finally makes a plea to encourage the Duke to make more use of his 'glorious gift'. | 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 Hoy, Gor | Go to resource |
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