BIB_ID
363189
Accession number
MA 49.8
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1787 Apr. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Mr. Creech's Bookseller opposite / the Cross / Edinburgh."
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 and 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 postmark 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
Pointing out that he sent four copies of his book to her son's wife, who had renounced all connection with the family, instead of Lady Wallace, her father's widow; expressing her displeasure that he did not omit certain passages she counseled him to excise; chiding him for "rebuk[ing her] friendly advice."
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