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Page 88
... letter to John Arnot about the same time , and Burns prefixed his own transcript of the letter with this note : ... I had got deeply in love with a young Fair - One , of which proofs were every day arising more & more to view . - I ...
... letter to John Arnot about the same time , and Burns prefixed his own transcript of the letter with this note : ... I had got deeply in love with a young Fair - One , of which proofs were every day arising more & more to view . - I ...
Page 92
... letter of April 3 , it seems clear that he had been thinking about publishing before the crisis with the Armours . ( It is impossible to date exactly Burns's first awareness of the Armours ' hostility , but the letter to Hamilton ...
... letter of April 3 , it seems clear that he had been thinking about publishing before the crisis with the Armours . ( It is impossible to date exactly Burns's first awareness of the Armours ' hostility , but the letter to Hamilton ...
Page 100
... letter ( which is undated ) was written just after Burns had received the news of Mary's death , and that ' the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner ' reflected his feeling of remorse in this connection ...
... letter ( which is undated ) was written just after Burns had received the news of Mary's death , and that ' the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner ' reflected his feeling of remorse in this connection ...
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