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Letter from Burns to Samuel Clark Junior
Period:
18th Century
Description:
Holograph letter from Robert Burns to Samuel Clark Junior, Dumfries, Commissary Clerk of Dumfries. Detail suggests his superiors in the Excise think him "a drunken dissipated character."
Materials/Media:
paper
Dimensions:
164mm x 200mm
Source:
Robert Burns House, Dumfries
Accession number:
DUMFM:1936.1
Digital Number:
BHBN069n
Copyright:
Dumfries & Galloway Council
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