So have I, even if I think his journal is the best thing he wrote :)
They didn't really overlap as writers - by the time Burns died in 1796 Scott wasn't doing much more than thinking about collecting Border ballads. He just happened to be a friend of the son of the guy (the philosopher Adam Ferguson) who was having the party.
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on 2021-07-06 08:46 am (UTC)They didn't really overlap as writers - by the time Burns died in 1796 Scott wasn't doing much more than thinking about collecting Border ballads. He just happened to be a friend of the son of the guy (the philosopher Adam Ferguson) who was having the party.