ABSTRACT
Extract from Robert Heron, A Memoir of the Life of the Late Robert Burns, Edinburgh 1797; text here from H. Hecht, Robert Burns, 2nd ed., rev. 1950, pp. 251ff. The Memoir first appeared, signed ‘H’, in the Monthly Magazine (June 1797), iii, pp. 213–16 and 552–62. It was reprinted in the Edinburgh Magazine (1797), Philadelphia Monthly Magazine (1798), and elsewhere (see No. 19, and Introduction, p. 22).
