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Dowie's Tavern
A tavern in Libberton's Wynd, Edinburgh, kept by Johnnie Dowie. It was a favourite haunt of Burns, Masterton, Nicol and their friends. In a small room known, because of its sign, as 'The Coffin', Burns is supposed to have written some of his songs, among them 'O Poortith Cauld'. Dowie's customers were mostly lawyers and writers who liked good food, and his tavern had a reputation for respectability. He refused to open a bottle after midnight. When he died in 1817, he left his fortune to his son, a Major in the Army. Dowie's was demolished in 1834.
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