Abstract
Describes and illustrates a two-sided fragment of Robert Burns's letter from Ellisland to his wife Jean Armour, in Muchline, from September 12, 1788, concerning her move to join him, and news for his brother Gilbert. Only four letters from Burns to Jean are now known; the main body of this letter was printed by Waddell in 1869, and was later recorded in the Honresfield Collection (now the Blavatnik-Honresfield Collection), but this section, now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, was snipped off by the then-owner Mary MacLaughlan Nicolson for a collector before Waddell saw it and has not previously been known to Burns's editors.
Recommended Citation
Scott, Patrick
(2022)
"Burns and Jean Armour, Ellisland, 1788: A Letter Fragment in the Roy Collection,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 48:
Iss.
2, 195–198.
DOI: 10.51221/suc.ssl.2023.48.2.14
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol48/iss2/17