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His female correspondents were women of superior intelligence and accomplishments. They can lay claim to a large proportion of his letters. Mrs. McLehose takes forty-eight; Mrs. Dunlop, forty-two; Maria Riddell, eighteen; Peggy Chalmers, eleven. These four ladies received among them rather more than one-fourth of the whole of his published correspondence.
Go ask Mary Morison, Highland Mary, Agnes McLehose, Betty Alison, and Jean Armour! The poems of Robert Burns fall easily into four divisions. First, those written while he was warmly wooing the object of his affection. Second, those written after he had won her. Third, those written when he had failed to win her.
McLehose, the beautiful widow to whom he addressed the song, "Clarinda, mistress of my soul," and a series of letters which present more instances of bad taste, bombastic language, and fulsome sentiment than could be produced from all his writings besides.
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