On leaving the kitchen and Burns Room we ascend the stairs bedecked with Burns poems and songs and enter the bedroom which Robert Burns used during his time as an Excise Officer prior to setting up home in Dumfries town centre. The room still retains its pine panelling and original features.

It was within this bedroom that Robert Burns was said to have had a fleeting affair with Anna Park, second cousin to Jock Hyslop. He was so struck with Anna that he composed the song,

Yestereen I had a pint o wine
A place where body saw na;
Yestereen lay on this breast o mine
The gowden locks of Anna.

In 1791 on the 31st March at Leith, Anna gave birth to a daughter called Elizabeth. Nine days later Jean gave birth to a son called William Nicol. With remarkable forbearance Jean eventually raised Anna's little girl as one of her own family. On the mantelpiece can be seen a statue of Jean Armour by Steve Niblock as she would have appeared during her daily duties at Ellisland Farm. Within this room Burns inscribed two stanzas on the window panes which can still be seen today as they were then. One is a praise of Polly Stewart, daughter of the factor on the Closeburn estate and a close friend of Robert Burns

"O lovely Polly Stewart
O charming Polly Stewart
There's not a flower that blooms in May
That's half so fair as thou art"

The other pane bears a varied rendering of part of a well known song by the poet.

"Gin a body meet a body
Coming through the grain
Gin a body kiss a body
The thing's a body's ain"

On leaving the bedroom one might feel a sudden chill as we once again ascend the stairs, this is not due to the age and nature of the building, but if fortunate from a visit from our ghost.