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Gray, Simon
A retired London business man in Duns who considered himself a poet. When Burns was at Berrywell, on his Border tour, he received on 5th May 1787 some of Gray's work for his views on it. He sent it back with the comment: "Symon Gray,
You're dull to-day."
Undaunted, Gray sent another lot, to which Burns replied:
"Dullness with redoubled sway,
Has seized the wits of Symon Gray."
Not content with this, Gray sent yet a third lot of his pieces. Burns sent back his views, this time at length. The nature of them can be readily appreciated from the following lines: 'So, Symon dear, your song I'll tear, And with it wipe my bum.'
Gray left annuities and a bread fund to Duns and according to Kinsley 'is commemorated in a local literary society'.
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