NEW LIGHT ON BURNS.
Mrs. Catherine Carswell novelist, and wife of tho critic. Donald Carswell, has almost finished her long-promised biography of Robert Burns, says John o' London's Weekly. Burns has suffered, probably more than any other great poet, at the hands of (hose who have attempted to tell the strange story of his life. After his death a vast, amount of important biographical material—letters, private papers, etc. —was destroyed in case it might give pain to the bereaved, and even now in Scotland the plain facts of Burns' lifo are glossed over. Mrs. Carswell has been collecting material for her book for the past three years. It is an interesting coincidence that it was her great-great-grandfather, Patrick Miller, of Dalswinton, who was Burns' patron and landlord in his later vears.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20372, 28 September 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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