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To return in this rambling letter to the subject I set out with, let me recommend my friend, Mr. Clarice, to your acquaintance and good offices; his worth entitles him to the one, and his gratitude will merit the other. I long much to hear from you. Adieu! Robertson, uncle to Mr. CLXVL To MR. THOMAS SLOAN. ELLISLAND, Sept. 1st, 1791.
Mr M , of A , who now lives near Ellisland, remembers, while living in his father's house, Laggan of Dunscore the place erroneously assumed by Cunningham that Burns and Nicol came there rather late one evening, and induced his father to accompany them to the town of Minniehive, whence he did not return home till next day at three o'clock.
CXLL To MRS. DUNLOP. ELLISLAND, 13th December 1789. Many thanks, dear Madam, for your sheetful of rhymes. Though at present I am below the veriest prose, yet from you everything pleases. I am groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous system; a system, the state of which is most conducive to our happiness or the most productive of our misery.
He used to say that the happiest period of his life was the first winter at Ellisland, with wife and children around him. It was then that he wrote, among other songs, "John Anderson, my Jo," "Tarn Glen," "My heart's in the Highlands," "Go fetch to me a pint of wine," and "Willie brewed a peck o' maut." But the "golden days" of Ellisland were short.
A great change it must have been to come from the quiet and seclusion of Ellisland to settle down in the midst of the busy life of an important burgh. Life in provincial towns in Scotland in those days was simply frittered away in the tittle-tattle of cross and causeway, and the insipid talk of taverns.
He might have been for Fergus, or Jonesboro', or Debarre, but there's no turn now in the clear track to Ellisland. He's there for certain." Ned Hinkley carefully restored his pistols to his bosom and buttoned up. He was mounted in a few moments, and pressing slowly forward in pursuit.
I would not put it in the power of ignorance to surmise, or malice to insinuate, that I clubbed a share in the work from mercenary motives. Nor need you give me credit for any remarkable generosity in my part of the business. ELLISLAND, 2th March 1791. If the foregoing piece be worth your strictures, let me have them.
A place called Laggan, about two miles from Ellisland, being further assumed as the seat of Nicol, we have the poet marching along to it bearing his punch-bowl as an essential of the frolic! a particular which this biographer would have probably suppressed, if he had known that the real Laggan of William Nicol is eight or nine miles from Ellisland, in a part of the country naturally so difficult of access, that a visitor might be glad to get there himself without any such nice burden as a punch-bowl to carry.
ELLISLAND, 16th DECEMBER 1789. My Lady, In vain have I from day to day expected to hear from Mis. Young, as she promised me at Dalswinton that she would do me the honour to introduce me at Tinwald; and it was impossible, not from your Ladyship's accessibility, but from my own feelings, that I could go alone. Lately, indeed, Mr.
Or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities a God that made all things man's immaterial and immortal nature and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. ELLISLAND, 4th Jan. 1789.
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