A BURNS LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 12899, 23 August 1906, Page 7

A BURNS LETTER.

The collection of autographs belonging to Miss Shiell, of Edinburgh, which were auctioned at Sotheby's (London) the other day, included a signature on a portion of a document of Mary Queen of Scots. September, 156*; an interesting letter from CarlyJe to hi 6 publisher, dated Ecclefechan, September 12, 1826; part of a MS. in the autograph of Keats; and an interesting undated letter from IJurna to " Clariuda." It runs:—l was on the way, my love, to meet you (I never do things by halves) when I got your card. M. goes out of town to-morrow morning to see a brother of his who is newly arrived from France. I am determined that he and I shall call on you together, so look you, lew I should never see to-morrow, we will call on you to-night. Mary and you may put off tea till about seven, at which time., "in the Galloway phrase, ' an' the beast be to the fore and the branks bide hale,' expert the humblest of your humble servants and his Nearest friend. We only propose staying half' an hour—" for aught ..we know." I could suffer tie lash of misery eleven months in the year were the twelfth to be composed of hours like yesternight. You are the soul of my enjoyment. All else is the stuff of stocks and.stones. —Sixvasper.

The Rev. J. Johnston (seventy-seven years of age) and Miss Johnston, of Stoke . Newington, were recently sentenced to a wek's imprisonment in Brixton and Holloway Prisons respectively for refusing to pay the education rate. Mr Percy Webb, of Crouch End, was sent to Brixton Prison for fourteen days for the same reason. This, was Mr and Miss Johnston's second term. | and Mr Webb's third.