Post by Geoff on Feb 4, 2010 18:53:28 GMT -5
DUMFRIES, Dumfriesshire
Old county town on the A75, where Burns settled in 1791 after giving up farming. He lived first in Bank St. (house gone) and then in Mill Vennel, renamed Burns St. His house is now a museum and is complemented by the large Burns Centre on Mill Rd (http://www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk). During his last years, which he spent collecting Scottish songs, he was worried over the health of his children and his own increasing weakness, for which strenuous remedies were recommended by his doctor. He frequented The Globe and the Hole in the Wall in Queensberry Sq. with his friends, and his pew in St Michael's Church is marked with a tablet. He died of rheumatic fever in 1796 and was buried in St Michael's churchyard.
Wordsworth's ‘At the Grave of Burns’ describes it as ‘grass grown’ and his sister Dorothy in her Journal writes in 1803, ‘The churchyard is full of … expensive monuments in all sorts of fantastic shapes—obelisk wise, pillar wise …’, and these are still there today. In 1808 Robert Anderson made a detour on his way to work in Ireland and visited Burns's widow, who let him sit in the poet's chair. He wrote ‘The Mountain Boy’ and ‘The Vale of Elva’ on the journey. In 1815 Burns was reinterred in a mausoleum like a little domed temple which Keats wrote was ‘not very much to my taste’. He wrote a sonnet, ‘On visiting the tomb of Burns’, and ‘Meg Merrilees’, about the gipsy ‘tall as Amazon’, also mentioned by Scott in Guy Mannering. Thomas Aird became editor (1835–63) of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Herald and lived in the town until his death in 1876. He was buried near Burns's tomb. J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) was educated at the Academy, and the Burgh Museum in the Observatory has some of his and Burns's manuscripts.
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/12690/Dumfries-Dumfries-Galloway.html#ixzz0ec9j4aB9
Also see:
burns.visitscotland.com/footsteps/dumfries
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/areadumf/index.html
Old county town on the A75, where Burns settled in 1791 after giving up farming. He lived first in Bank St. (house gone) and then in Mill Vennel, renamed Burns St. His house is now a museum and is complemented by the large Burns Centre on Mill Rd (http://www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk). During his last years, which he spent collecting Scottish songs, he was worried over the health of his children and his own increasing weakness, for which strenuous remedies were recommended by his doctor. He frequented The Globe and the Hole in the Wall in Queensberry Sq. with his friends, and his pew in St Michael's Church is marked with a tablet. He died of rheumatic fever in 1796 and was buried in St Michael's churchyard.
Wordsworth's ‘At the Grave of Burns’ describes it as ‘grass grown’ and his sister Dorothy in her Journal writes in 1803, ‘The churchyard is full of … expensive monuments in all sorts of fantastic shapes—obelisk wise, pillar wise …’, and these are still there today. In 1808 Robert Anderson made a detour on his way to work in Ireland and visited Burns's widow, who let him sit in the poet's chair. He wrote ‘The Mountain Boy’ and ‘The Vale of Elva’ on the journey. In 1815 Burns was reinterred in a mausoleum like a little domed temple which Keats wrote was ‘not very much to my taste’. He wrote a sonnet, ‘On visiting the tomb of Burns’, and ‘Meg Merrilees’, about the gipsy ‘tall as Amazon’, also mentioned by Scott in Guy Mannering. Thomas Aird became editor (1835–63) of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Herald and lived in the town until his death in 1876. He was buried near Burns's tomb. J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) was educated at the Academy, and the Burgh Museum in the Observatory has some of his and Burns's manuscripts.
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/12690/Dumfries-Dumfries-Galloway.html#ixzz0ec9j4aB9
Also see:
burns.visitscotland.com/footsteps/dumfries
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/areadumf/index.html