A Burn's Letter

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1916, Page 3

A Burn's Letter

SOLD FOR £120. A letter from .Burns to Mrs Dunlop, 'dated January 31, '179b', was one of the ! productions to be .sold at Christie's London, on Monday, and icalised £•120. I It has i).K?n acquired, it is understood, for a Glasgow collector. .The letter shows' that-'Burs had, drunk deep of the cup of affliction. Ho had lest his only, daughter, and had been the victim of most severe .rheumatic fever, but li» was again beginning to go about. lit writes:— When pleasure fascinates the nrcntal sight. . ' - - Affliction purities the visual ray ; Religion hails the drear, the nutired niglit, "... TJjat .shuts, for ever shuts! 'Life s doubtful day. I know not how you are in Ayrshire, Irni here we have actual famine, and that too in the midst of plenty. Mar days my- family, and hundreds of other families, are absolutely without one grain of meal, as money cannot purchase, I cannot toll: they threaten daily.—Lennox Herald.