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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.
Burns continues his lyrical description of the scene on page two and to praise her beauty. He then relates to the enclosed song 'the bonnie lass of Ballochmyle' and explained that he needed her permission to include it in his next edition of his poems. History tell us that she did not reply. | 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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