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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.
Page two is largely devoted to a plea by Burns to encourage Dunbar to continue his correspondence with him as he has few Edinburgh friends who do so now he has left and he is anxious for news of the gossip from the Capital. He finishes this page by saying he has written scarcely two lines of poetry since he left Edinburgh. | 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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