Post by Geoff on Feb 4, 2010 18:50:24 GMT -5
ELLISLAND, Dumfriesshire
Farm on the A76, 6 m. N of Dumfries, on the bank of the Nith. In 1789 Robert Burns leased the farm, which he intended to improve with new methods, but when these proved unprofitable he was forced to work as an excise man. The poem ‘To Mary—in Heaven’, about the dead Mary Campbell, and ‘Tam o' Shanter’ were written here, and he also collected here many songs for James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1787–1803), including ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and ‘A Red, Red Rose’. Burns's health was not improved by the bizarre medical methods of the time or by his anxiety about the frailty of his children. It is thought his heart was affected by rheumatic fever in his childhood: he died in 1796 and was buried in Dumfries. Part of the farmhouse now contains Burnsiana (http://www.ellislandfarm.co.uk).
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/12766/Ellisland-Dumfries-Galloway.html#ixzz0ec8yRhrt
Farm on the A76, 6 m. N of Dumfries, on the bank of the Nith. In 1789 Robert Burns leased the farm, which he intended to improve with new methods, but when these proved unprofitable he was forced to work as an excise man. The poem ‘To Mary—in Heaven’, about the dead Mary Campbell, and ‘Tam o' Shanter’ were written here, and he also collected here many songs for James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1787–1803), including ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and ‘A Red, Red Rose’. Burns's health was not improved by the bizarre medical methods of the time or by his anxiety about the frailty of his children. It is thought his heart was affected by rheumatic fever in his childhood: he died in 1796 and was buried in Dumfries. Part of the farmhouse now contains Burnsiana (http://www.ellislandfarm.co.uk).
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/12766/Ellisland-Dumfries-Galloway.html#ixzz0ec8yRhrt