Burns & Geddes: Bishop John Geddes to Father John Thomson, BL3/496/12
BL3/496/12
26th March 1787
Bishop John Geddes to Fr John Thomson, Agent of the Scottish Bishops of Rome
'There is an excellent poet started up in Ayrshire, where he has been a
Ploughman; he has made many excellent Poems in old Scotch, which are now in
the Press for the third time. I shall send them to you. His name is Burns.
He is twenty-eight years old; he is in town just now, and I supped with him
twice at Lord Monboddo's, where I conversed a good deal with him, and think
him a man of uncommon genius, and he has, as yet, time, if he lives, to
cultivate it'
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