£210 TOO LATE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

£210 TOO LATE.

; Robert -Burns had never over-much rfioney in his pocket, and that is what makes the recent sale of one of his letters for £2lO a little pathetic ’ What. could he not have done with £2lO when he sat down and dashed that letter off to a Glascow grocer? He had only been married a year and had taken a picturesque but unprofitable. farm. The letter itself is all about money he pw.es for some poems sent to him. He has the money ready, he says; but it is a depressed letter. And now the Burns Cottage Trustees have paid £2lO for it. A CROWD WORTH HAVING. The Chicago Exhibition was visited by 23,000,000 people, who spent 40,000,000 dollars. No wonder it is to be 1 opened again next year. .