BIB_ID
132295
Accession number
MA 49.15
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1787 Dec. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / at Mr. Cruickshank's / St. James Square."
Docketed.
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
General Sir John Wallace; by descent to Sir William Thomas Francis Agnew Wallace; bequeathed to his brother, Colonel F.J. Wallace; acquired by Robert Borthwick Adam before 1898; purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913, possibly from the London dealer Pearson.
Summary
Discussing their correspondence, and asking him to continue to write to her and to send her poems; wondering when he will be returning to her neighborhood; telling him not to worry about his "rank or fortune ... unless it is to remember [his] own advantages in both."
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