Copied Extract, Letter to Andrew Borland: Spring 1810
Extract
from a Letter written by R. Tannahill a short time before his death, to A.
Borland Glasgow ______________ My Dearest Friend I am an ungrateful
wretch in not writing you before to day. my conscience
has been upbraiding me there ten days past for delaying it. I hope this will
find you, & your two Annies all as well as I wish
you. For myself I have been in a poorish way ever since I saw
you last, of the souls immortality I shall not drop a surmise. but my
spirits too have been as dull and cheerless as winters gloomiest days, when we
meet I shall tell you the cause of all this, it is partly my own ˄fault˄
& partly other peoples [#] Altho, I go there as seldom as
possible – yet how often have I sat X X
X X burn this Letter, in the formost part
of it I have opened my mind to you more freely than perhaps I would to any
other person living -- What
has the World to do with, or who cares (take the mass of mankind) for the
feelings of others – am I right? Happiness attend you R.
Tannahill Copy Text: MS Robertson 1/38. This is a copy of a letter of Tannahill’s, not the holograph. Previous Publication: Notes: |