My Highland lassie was a warm-hearted charming young creature as ever blessed a man with generous love.
On a note in the interleaved Museum (once thought to be a forgery by Cromek, but shown by Ferguson in an article in the Philological Quarterly, July 1930, to be genuine), Burns wrote: 'This was a composition of mine in very early life, before I was known at all in the world. In the spring of 1786, Burns wrote a song, 'The Highland Lassie, O'. She, of course, was despatched to Paisley in March 1786. According to Burns's mother, and his sister, Isabella, Burns turned seriously to Mary Campbell after he had been 'deserted' by Jean Armour. The firm facts of her early life are sketchy enough but the facts of her relationship with Burns are even more sketchy.
According to Grierson, who met Mary's sister, Mrs Anderson, in 1817, Mary was 'tall, fair haired with blue eyes'. From there, she moved to Coilsfield (Burns's 'Castle o' Montgomery') where she was employed as a dairymaid. Hamilton's married daughter, Mrs Todd, remembered Mary Campbell coming to look after her brother Alexander in 1785, Mrs Todd described her as 'very pleasant and winning', though not a beauty. In her early 'teens, she went to Ayrshire and became a nursemaid in Gavin Hamilton's house in Mauchline. She lived with her parents, first, near Dunoon, then at Campbeltown, and finally at Greenock. Register with our Shopping Club for further offers and unique member offers.īurns's 'Highland' Mary was born to Archibald Campbell of Daling, a seaman, and Agnes Campbell of Auchamore, by Dunoon, who had married in 1762. View our exclusive range of distinctive Robert Burns related products.
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