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Description: | Three page letter where Burns appraises his Edinburgh friend William Dunbar of his recent farm commitment at Ellisland, some 40 miles from Mauchline, admitting to a lack of business acumen and asking him for news of the Edinburgh scene which he has recently left behind. (letter no 236)
Burns's previous letter to William Dunbar, a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, had been enclosed with the return of a book and had been written a few days before he ended his winter's stay Edinburgh and left for Mauchline in February 1788.
In the first page Burns for once does not excuse his delay in replying to a letter, in this case only 3 weeks old. He then explains he is busy setting up the farm at Ellisland and needs to improve his 'knowledge of business' and is putting aside his earlier dissipated life for a more serious existence. | 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 William Dunbar | Go to resource |
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