BIB_ID
363309
Accession number
MA 49.16
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1788 Jan.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns."
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.
Probable date is based on published version of the letter.
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.
Probable date is based on published version of the letter.
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
Telling him that she is "truly vext to see [his] train of ideas at present"; noting that she does not "know how to comfort [him] under the pressure of such terrible guilt but by recommending [him] to the Jesuits"; warning him not to "let the devil drive, as it is alleged [he] sometimes do[es]"; sending him a purse with "the single note it happened at the moment to contain," and expressing concern that he will take offense at the gift; offering comments on some of his poems.
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