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Description: | Three page letter that Robert Burns wrote to his school friend William Niven now a merchant in Maybole. Concerned at lack of response to earlier letters, Burns worries about losing his friendship but imparts little news or information. (letter no 2)
This is the earliest, bar one, of the surviving letters written by Robert Burns in his 21st year. His hand at this time lacks the assurance and vigour seen in his later manuscripts and he is clearly making his first tentative steps as a letter writer, some 700 of which he wrote in his short life.
In page one Burns chides Niven on not having replied to his two earlier letters and worries that his friendship is waning or that he simply is too occupied in other matters to remember an old friend. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1780-01-01 - 1780-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to William Niven | Go to resource |
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