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Description: | Two page letter recounting a meeting Burns had with the lady, Wilhelmina Alexander, at Ballochmyle during a walk in the woods one spring evening, and inclosing a song (poem no 89) he had written on her. (letter no 56)
The Ballochmyle estate near Mauchline had been recently purchased by Claud Alexander on return from a spell with the East India Company in Bengal where he now lived with his sister Wilhelmina Alexander. The estate on the banks of the river Ayr was not far from where Burns lived at Mossgiel Farm and he would walk the river bank of an evening, sometimes straying into the estate grounds.
On page one Burns introduces himself and explains the circumstances of his meeting with Wilhelmina Alexander earlier in the year during an evening walk along the banks of the Ayr and wonders if she remembers it. He then provides a poetic description of the scene. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1786-01-01 - 1786-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to Wilhelmina Ale | Go to resource |
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