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Epistle To J. Lapraik

The elderly bard, John Lapraik (1727-1807) of Dalfram, Muirkirk, was married to Margaret, sister of another of Burns's poetic friends, John Rankine (to whom Burns' dedicated a verse epistle). Lapraik ...
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Epistle to James Smith

This is an epistle by Robert Burns. It was written in 1786 and is read here by Gerry Carruthers. 'Epistle to James Smith' was written c.1785 and first appeared in Burns's Kilmarnock edition of Poems, ...
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Epistle To A Young Friend

This is an epistle by Robert Burns. It was written in 1786 and is read here by Ralph Riach. The young friend in this poem is Andrew Hunter Aiken (d. 1831), the son of Robert Aiken (to whom The ...
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Epistle to James Smith

'Epistle to James Smith' was written c.1785 and first appeared in Burns's Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). James Smith (b.1765) was a draper in Mauchline and a ...