BIB_ID
363230
Accession number
MA 49.10
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1787 July 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 22.7 and 22.2 cm
Notes
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.
The first 7 pages are an autograph poem by Dunlop (first line: "Five months of expectation past") based on lines by John Gay ("This world's a farce and all things show it"). The autograph letter signed is on p. [8].
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.
The first 7 pages are an autograph poem by Dunlop (first line: "Five months of expectation past") based on lines by John Gay ("This world's a farce and all things show it"). The autograph letter signed is on p. [8].
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
Sending the bearer of this letter to ask after him because she heard he was "seized with a fever"; sending him one of her poems for his amusement; reporting that her daughter has been ill; hoping Burns will visit her again.
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