The Second Epistle follows a reply from Lapraik to Burns' first Epistle to J. Lapraik, An Old Scotch Bard and is mostly autobiographical in content and details the bad luck which has been the ...

In 1786, Robert Burns was looking for an escape route. He couldn't earn enough money working as a farmer in Ayrshire and his home life wasn't much happier. Robert Burns accepted a job on a ...