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advice of £160 being subscribed in Demerara, and the prospect of 
its being made out £200, and in all probability we will receive it 
early in the spring, as the gentleman, a native of this place, is 
then expected, who had the management, and we are at present 
in correspondence with America.” ‘ Surely,” the letter went on 
to say, ‘he could not expect the Committee to advance the money 
out of their own pockets, particularly for a work not delivered, 
although part paid for, and which none of them had ever seen or 
heard any opinion of except from Mr Turnerelli himself. They 
had never urged the affair upon him, but he had urged himself 
upon the Committee.” The letter added, “you have already our 
ideas respecting exhibiting in Edinburgh. The Committee never 
entertained the idea of exhibiting the tribute to the memory of 
Burns through the country as a pupit show. We feel more venera- 
tion for our country and our Bard.” 
Further correspondence of a similar nature followed, and in 
the end the sculpture was sent down from London and placed in 
the Mausoleum. At this time Gilbert Burns, now drawing near 
the close of his life, when asked to visit Dumfries, wrote to Mr 
Grierson :— 
Your obliging letter of the 27th I only received yesterday. I am 
much afraid it will not be in my power to visit Dumfries during the 
time the London marbleman is to be with you, though I much wish it ; 
not that I think I could be of any use in improving the marble, as I 
scarcely think it possible to make an artist produce the likeness of a 
person he has not seen, but it would certainly gratify me much to comply 
with the wishes of those who have taken so much trouble to do honour 
to my brother’s memory. I trouble you with tne exclosed to Mrs Burns, 
and beg you will get it immediately sent to her. If I do make out my 
visit to Dumfries at this time it will be on Thursday, the 2d Sept., and 
wish her to be aware of my coming, as I believe the coach arrives late 
at Dumfries. I will send and invite Dr Sibbald to accompany me if I 
find I can set out, or send what despatches with me he wishes if he do 
not think of journeying, which I rather doubt. I beg you will present 
Mrs B.’s and my assurances of kind regard to Mrs Grierson, and believe 
me to be ever, 
GILBERT Burns. 
_ Grant’s Braes, 3lst August, 1819. 
A large balance, continued Mr Wilson, was still due to Mr 
Turnerelli, and all the Committee did was to undertake to raise it 
if at all possible. Nothing further seems to have been paid except 
a sum of £150 remitted from Demerara. Letters down to 6th 
