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Description: | Burns when he was in Edinburgh decided to create his second Commonplace Book where he could record his thoughts and compositions as they occurred to him. Commenced on April 9th 1787, its pages are numbered from 1 to 40 with pages 23-26 missing. The bulk of the pages contain copies of poems, which he saved for later use, and his personal reflections are confined to the first dozen or so pages.
The poem is an abridged version of a poem by the Rev. John Mackenzie of Portpatrick and was published in the Scots Magazine of March 1769. Burns enclosed a copy of it in a letter to Mrs Dunlop in July 1789 which for a time gave it the unlikely appearance of one of Burns's own works. (letter no 351)
Page 9 - Burns continues to copy out the verses of the Elegy to Stella in the book. He described it in his letter to Mrs Dunlop as having 'many touches of the true tender, I shall make no apology for sending it to you'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1787-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | The Second Commonplace Book of Robert Bu | Go to resource |
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