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It is interesting, however, to read a letter of hers touching this point, for it shows, apart from other things, what opinion her contemporaries had of her masterpiece. As for me, I am flattered at being suspected, and I think I should acknowledge the book if I were sure that the author would never claim it of me.
Despite the protest of the author, contemporaries found originals for a number of the characters of this novel. The duc de Mora is Morny, and several others have been identified with greater or less certainty. Félicia Ruys is perhaps Sarah Bernhardt.
The Contemporaries of Burns and the more recent Poets of Ayrshire, with selections from their writings. Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1840. Robert Burns at Mossgiel, with reminiscences of the Poet by His Herd-Boy, by WILLIAM JOLLY. Paisley, Alexander Gardner, 1881. A Winter with Robert Burns, being annals of his Patrons and Associates in Edinburgh, during the year 1786-87.
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