68 Transactions. 
Wishing you many returns of the season, I am always, dear sir, yours 
most faithfully, K. W. Burnett. 
Another letter was from William Douglas, M.P., one of the 
members of the Mausoleum Committee, the spirit of which did 
him considerable credit, as persons in official positions were 
generally imposed upon when subscriptions were required for any 
object under the sun. He thought right to show the honest 
feeling it breathed. 
Castle, January 21st, 1814. 
Sir,—I enclose the covers frank’d as you desired. I know of no person 
in Aberdeen fitter than Mr Thomson for receiving the subscriptions. 
The subscription paper and resolutions which you sent me have been 
committed to the care of Mr Alex. M‘Millan, in Castle-Douglas, who will 
lose no opportunity of obtaining any little matter which the people of the 
place and neighbourhood may feel disposed to contribute. It is quite 
right to try every person and every place, but I do not expect much here, 
as the neighbourhood, especially the wealthier part of it, will most pro- 
bably forward their subscriptions to Dumfries. I have some difficulty 
about my own. I am not less averse to ostentatious forwardness than I 
am to parsimony. I neither wish to fall short of the liberality that is 
proper nor to presume beyond it, and would much rather, as one of the 
committee, give somewhat additional afterwards, if necessary, for com- 
pleting the design, than be emblazoned on the page of a public subscription 
paper. If you think ten guineas right, let that be my subscription in the 
meantime. If too much or too little omit me till I see you in a few days 
hence as I pass to London, where I can be made acquainted with the 
-subseriptions of persons similarly situated and conform to their example. 
By-the-way, a little more of the profits of poesy might have been 
dedicated by the most fortunate of our Border minstrels to decorate the 
memory of a less fortunate bard. 
However, it is not by the liberality of a few individuals, but. by the 
amount of the general subscriptions, that the committee’s object is to be 
attained.—I remain, sir, your very obedt.,. Witum. Douvenas. 
Mr Wm. Grierson, Dumfries. 
Mr Wilson also found the following letter in connection with 
the Burns Club from William Tennant, author of “ Anster Fair,” 
then teacher of classical and oriental languages in Dollar 
Academy, and afterwards Professor of Oriental Languages im St. 
Mary’s College, St. Andrews :— 
Dollar Academy, Feb. 2nd, 1822. 
Sir, —I received duly your esteemed favour of 25th notifying tome my 
admission as honorary member of the Dumfries Burns Club, an honour for 
which be pleased to accept of my warmest and most respectful gratitude. 
May much joy and convivial blessedness attend your sittings. 
Should Mr M‘Diarmid be within your reach, I shall be obliged to you 
