Free Highlight Talks will resume this September in the Robertson Room at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway.
The talks take place from 2.30pm to 3.30pm on Wednesdays in the historic museum, with a number of guest speakers.
On September 11, Jean Swinley, volunteer guide at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, looks at the life and literary output of the writer James Barke with particular emphasis on his books about Robert Burns and his role as an editor of Burns' work.
On September 25, Ian Campbell, Emeritus professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature at Edinburgh University, looks at Letters of a Lifetime: Thomas and Jane Carlyle.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher wrote a Life of Robert Burns and Carlyle's birthplace in Ecclefechan is in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.
The author Virginia Wolff called Jane Carlyle one of the "great letter writers"
Booking a place for free on Eventbrite is recommended.
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