Excerpt from The Complete Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 3: Self-Interpreting, Illustrated With Sixty Etchings and Wood Cuts, Maps and Facsimiles, Part II If your better functions would give you leisure to write to me, I should be extremely happy; that is to say, if you neither keep nor look for a regular cor respondence. I hate the idea of being obliged to write a letter. I sometimes write a friend twice a week; at other times once a quarter. I am exceedingly pleased with your fancy in making the author you mention place a map of Iceland instead of his portrait before his works 'twas a glorious idea. Could you conveniently do me one thing - when ever you finish any head I should like to have a proof copy of it. I might tell you a long story about your fine genius; but as what everybody knows cannot have escaped you, I shall not say one syllable about it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.