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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire. In 1786 after the first publication of his poems he travelled to Edinburgh where he met a society lady Mrs. Agnes McLehose ('Clarinda'. They corresponded Burns being known as 'Sylvander' to 'Clarinda'.
The set of 2 glasses along with other 'Clarinda' correspondence is on display in the Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway.
The glass shown is one of a set of two that Burns presented to 'Clarinda' in 1788 along with a poem 'Fair Empress of the Poet's Soul' ( No. ). Burns was unable to pursue the relationship further as she was married, her husband having left her to go to Jamaica. | 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: | One of a pair of Wine Glasses given by B | Go to resource |
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