Glimpses of Burns in the Dunlop Collection           3 3

ing up with the cUmax of marriage." The chmax, or "dying
raptures" experienced witli Anne Park and franl<ly renewed in
"Yestreen I Had a Pint o' Wine," was surely somewhat different.

George Dunlop and William Young, the first letterwriter quo¬
ted, attended a school reunion on the Scottish New Year's Eve of
1901. Months later Young's comment was, "That happy Ochil¬
tree Hogmanay remains with me a treasured possession." In an¬
other way, the entire Dunlop Collection is "a treasured posses¬
sion," not least for its glimpses of Burns, his patrons, his progeny,
and those who fondly shielded his memory.