“Gala Water” and “Auld Rob Morris” I think, will most probably be the next subject of my musings. However, even on my verses, speak out your criticisms with equal frankness. My wish is not to stand aloof, the uncomplying bigot of opiniâtreté, but cordially to join issue with you in the furtherance of the work.
R. B.
FOOTNOTES:
[201] It is something worse in the Edinburgh edition—“Behind yon hills where Stinchar flows.”—Poems, p 322.
CCXXXVIII.
TO MR. THOMSON.
[The poet loved to describe the influence which the charms of Miss Lesley Baillie exercised over his imagination.]
November 8th, 1792.