THE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS; WITH HIS LIFE, A BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. "HIGH CHET of Scottish Song ! And brand each vice with satire strong; Whose lines are mottoes of the heart, Whose truths electrify the sage." CAMPBELL. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. VII. LONDON: JAMES COCHRANE AND CO. 11, WATERLOO PLACE. 1834. 53. NOTICE. : WITH this volume closes the correspondence of Burns. A number of letters are now printed for the first time; others not in Currie's edition have been admitted: and several, before imperfect, are given entire, without alteration, or omission. That Burns wrote many of his letters in extreme haste this work sufficiently shows that he wrote others in wild fits of fun and humour might likewise be proved, did public taste permit the disclosure of what was meant to be private: yet, in the hastiest of these published effusions, there are marks of his truly original mind, even the slightest of them will be found to record some sentiment, or fix some important date, which those who desire to trace the history of the Poet would not willingly lose. In the progress of this work it has been more than once intimated that Burns addressed before |