Author: Robert Burns

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780267478354

Excerpt from The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 4 of 4 The labours of the various gentlemen who have aided me in the work, which has now been brought to a close, have been so valuable and of so substantial a character that I cannot but re gard the book itself as being at least as much theirs as it is mine. I am deeply indebted and grateful to Mr J. C. Ewing, of The Mitchell Library, Glasgow, and Mr james davidson, m.a., for assistance of this character in the general work of revision and correction; and to my brother, Mr robert tallaoe, mp. For East Edinburgh, for similar help in the inception and production of an estimate of the character and genius of Burns. I cannot too heartily thank Mr \villiam melven, m.a., of Glasgow Academy, for his strenuous exertions to make the Indexes a full and accu rate guide to the whole work. The altogether unique biblio graphical scholarship and special researches of Mr Ewing have saved me from many errors in alluding to works upon Burns, and have enabled me to present to the public for the first time a number of important and hitherto unpublished letters of the poet, including those relating to his 'contest with the London News men.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.