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Description: | This holograph note was written by Thomas Sloan seeking Taylor's immediate assistance to get the local blacksmith to attend to the shoes of his and Robert Burns' horses which needed 'frosted' to give them a better grip on the frost covered ground.
Also written on this note is a poem which Burns wrote on the spot with the same request but in verse indicating that the poem would be by way of payment for Taylor's assistance. 'Pegasus at Wanlockhead' (poem no 245).
Sloan points out to Taylor that they have encountered slippery ground such that they could suffer broken bones. He says that while his life is of no consequence to the World this was not the case with Burns and could he help them to get their horses shoes sharpened. | 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 Thomas Sloan to Mr John Taylor | Go to resource |
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