BIB_ID
268278
Accession number
MA 49.1-113
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1786 Dec. 30-1795 Jan. 12
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 v. (113 items), bound ; 45.8 cm
Notes
Many letters with address, postmark, and 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
A large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. In addition to 100 letters from Dunlop to Burns, the collection also includes 10 autograph poems by Dunlop, a copy of a letter from Robert Burns to John Moore dated 1787 Aug. 2 (MA 49.11), an autograph poem by Janet Little (MA 49.54), an an autograph letter signed from John Moore to Robert Burns dated 1787 Nov. 8 (MA 49.14). Items in the collection are described in 113 individual records (MA 49.1-113).
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