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Description: | This three page letter is written at the time Burns is receiving his Excise training in Mauchline and is penned to his old friend from his Mauchline youth who had owned a drapers shop there, and is now working as a calico printer in Linlithgow. Smith presumably has access to linen and other fabric products which Burns is taking advantage of. (letter no 237)
The final part of the letter deals with the logistics of having it delivered and in executing payment between Mauchline and Linlithgow. Here the name Connel comes up again as a courier and he instructs Smith to ensure that 'The quality, let it be of the best', leaving the pattern up to him.
In this last page Burns gets down to the 'business' of the letter which is that he wants to give his wife a shawl 'tis my first present to her' since their marriage and he confesses a 'whimsical wish' that it should come from their mutual 'trusty Trojan' of a friend, James Smith. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1788-01-01 - 1788-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to James Smith, d | Go to resource |
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