Burt's Letters


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In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government. For most of the time, he was based in Inverness, from where he wrote regularly to an acquaintance in London about his experiences. Burt had an insatiable curiosity about everything. From cooking and personal hygiene (the standards of which continually shocked him), to weddings, funerals, public executions and even the activities of witches, no aspect of Highland life or society escaped his scrutiny. Burt's witty and satirical style makes entertaining reading, but whilst he was certainly critical of many things, he draws a very sympathetic picture of the grinding hardship and poverty faced by so much of the ordinary population. His writing is a salutary antidote to many of the Romantic views of the Highlands and Jacobitism, which were later to take hold. It is now available for the first time in one volume, with modernised spelling and includes an Introduction by Charles W. J. Withers, Professor of Geography in the University of Edinburgh.













Letters


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Burt Richards' Celebrity Letters


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MEET BURT RICHARDS, THE MULTITALENTED ENTERTAINER, AUTHOR AND HOST, THROUGH SELECTED LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE FROM HIS VAST COLLECTION OF MEMORABILIA WITH AN ESTIMATED VALUE OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS. FOR OVER 50 YEARS BURT RICHARDS HAS BEFRIENDED, INTERVIEWED AND CORRESPONDED WITH WELL-KNOWN CELEBRITIES OF STAGE, FILM AND TELEVISION AS WELL AS ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT INCLUDE PRESIDENTS, GOVERNORS AND MAYORS PLUS A FEW MILLIONAIRES. MANY OF THE CELEBRITIES HAVE REMAINED LIFE-LONG FRIENDS AND MR. RICHARDS GRACIOUSLY SHARES SOME PERSONAL MOMENTS. IN HIS PREVIOUS BOOK STARS IN MY EYES: THEN AND NOW, HE SKILLFULLY ELICITED PERSONAL THOUGHTS AND DESIRES WITH HIS INTELLIGENT INTERVIEWS OF THESE SAME CELEBRITY STARS. THIS PREFACE IS BY BEVERLY GANDARA AWARD-WINNING SCREENWRITER AND NOVELIST










BURTS LETTERS FROM THE NORTH O


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Burt's Letters From the North of Scotland


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