BIB_ID
363260
Accession number
MA 49.13
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1787 Nov. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / to the care of William Kerr Esq. / General Surveyor of the Post-Office / 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 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
Forwarding a packet for him from Dr. [John] Moore; telling him that Moore has helped one of her sons get a position in one of the new regiments for India.
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