A Note on Elizabeth Isabella Spence and her Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland (1811)

This article discusses several engagements with Burns and Robert Fergusson by Elizabeth Isbaella Spence in the early nineteenth century, as well textual variance found nineteenth-century versions of Burns's ‘Epistle to Robt Graham, Esq: Fintry on Election for Dumfries string Boroughs, Anno 1790’ (1790). is involved contemporary Romantic conceptualisation Scotland, she visited widow Jean Armour part a tour country providing an account her encounter. note examines particular variant which appears Spence's publication Graham Fintray’, tracing this throughout key early-to-mid versions.