BIB_ID
363143
Accession number
MA 49.2
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1787 Jan. [9?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Care of Mr. Creech / Cross / Edr."
Date is based on Burns's reply to this letter, written on Jan. 15, in which he refers to "yours of the 9th current."
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 postmark ("JA 15") and trace of a seal.
Date is based on Burns's reply to this letter, written on Jan. 15, in which he refers to "yours of the 9th current."
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 postmark ("JA 15") and 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
Apologizing for not "attending to his interest," and explaining that her sister-in-law's death prevented her from showing his book "but to a very few of [her] friends"; recommending that he send a copy of his book to Captain Woodburn in the East Indies so he can "display [the book] in the Eastern world"; hoping he has written to Dr. [John] Moore, and sending him Moore's letter "to let you know how much he is in earnest your admirer"; asking him to keep the letters from Dr. Moore until she sees him and not to mention them to anyone, "as it would be disobliging both Lord Eglinton and him, and thereby hurting yourself as well as me for shewing them"; noting that she thinks his book should have been published with an "enlarged glossary" to make it easier for people other than Scotsmen to read it.
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