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Description: | Letter written from Lawn Market in Edinburgh on 13th January, 1787 enclosing a poem titled 'Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl's Picture'. The letter conveys his gratitude to the Earl for his generous patronage. (letter No 75)
Burns is indebted to the Earl who with his mother has subscribed to 24 copies of the Edinburgh Edition of Burns's poems, and has influenced his fellow members of the Caledonian Hunt to take another hundred.
Page one of two, starting 'My Lord' to 'I trust I have a heart as..'. Burns intends to purchase a portrait of the Earl and below this to display a suitable verse which he has written and encloses with the letter asking for the Earl's approval to publish it. | 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, Earl of | Go to resource |
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