The publication of Catherine Carswell’s seminal biography of Burns, which was serialized in the Daily Record, caused a sensation among the Burns Federation and other Burns idolizers, who were deeply offended at her portrayal of him as a less than saintly, carousing and womanizing genius.
This morning (through the newspaper where it was serialized) I had an anonymous letter containing a bullet, which I was requested to use upon myself that the world might be left ‘a brighter cleaner and better place’. So evidently the fun has started. Oh Scotland, oh my country!