without her. I don't choose to enter into particulars in writing, but never was a poor rakish rascal in a more pitiful taking. I should be glad to see you to tell you the affair.—Meanwhile I am your friend, ROBERT BURNESS.
MOSSGAVIL, 11th Nov. 1784.
[7] Peggy Thomson.
[7a] ] Birth of his illegitimate child by Elizabeth Paton, once a servant with his father at Lochlie.
XIII.-TO MISS MARGARET KENNEDY.[8]
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A young lady of seventeen, when this letter was addressed to her, and on a visit to Mrs. Gavin Hamilton at Mauchline.
]
[Probably Autumn, 1785.]