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The Correspondence Between Burns and Clarinda; With a Memoir of Mrs. M'lehose (clarinda).
The Correspondence Between Burns and Clarinda With a Memoir of Mrs M'lehose - clarinda Author:Robert Burns General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Original Publisher: W. Tait Description: "The editor ... an adopted citizen of the United States ... resided in the state of Massachusetts in the years 1840 and 41, and his friend, the Hon. W.G. Rales, being a member of the legislature, presented a petition on his behalf for... more » authority to change his name [to William Lonsdale]. The secretary of state's certificate (a copy of which is appended) shows the result of the application. But the editor's family name appears on the title page of the English edition, because the publisher was of the opinion that the family name ... was necessary to authenticate the work."--American preface, p. [iii]-iv. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER III CLARINDA To SYLVANDER. Saturday Evening, [December 8A.] Inured as I have been to disappointments, I never- felt more, nay, nor half so severely, for one of the same nalure! The cruel cause, too, augments my uneasiness. I trust you'll soon recover it. Meantime, if my sympathy, my friendship, can alleviate your pain, be assured you possess them. I am much flattered at being a favourite of yours. Miss Nimmo can tell you how earnestly I had long This is one of the few Letters of which the address has been preserved. It is addressed, " Mr. Robert Burns, Mr. Cruickshanks', James' Square." Mr. Cruiekshanks, with whom Burns stayed during his visit to Edinburgh, was one of the masters of the High School. The address on the letters which Clarinda wrote, have generally been obliterated with ink; while those she received have usually been cut or torn off -- to gratify (it is supposed) autograph collectors. Sometimes several lines of writing on the previous...« less