Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time, With Elucidations
The new matter is otherwise remarkably rich in fresh biographical details, in illustration not only of the relations between the two friends, but also of the poet's character, walk, and conversation, and in material for study of the text of numerous poems. It reveals the fact that it was at least within the bounds of possibility that Burns might have been a military officer, and alterna tively a professor in the University of Edinburgh, and that Adam Smith, who has not hitherto been known to have taken much interest in him, conceived at a very early date the idea of making him a Salt Officer in the Customs service at a salary of g 30 a year. Burns certainly dallied with the notion of taking a stand of colours, and uncommon pains were taken by Mrs. Dunlop and Dr. Moore to procure for him the nomina tion to the Chair of Agriculture in Edinburgh, which was founded in 1787. Much that is new is brought out as to his connection with the Excise for example, the fact that he aimed from the first at a port-officer ship with its superior emoluments, the probable date of his initiation into his profession, Corbet's services to him, and so forth.
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