BIB_ID
363314
Accession number
MA 49.19
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Apr. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.3 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.
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
Asking if he has read Acajou et Zirphile [by Charles Pinot Duclos] or the Eikon Basilike of King Charles; mentioning her daughter and a sketch she is working on; sending him a poem she wrote in French; mentioning "a book come out against [him]"; explaining that she does not "like sharp wit, and would as soon try the edge of my penknife on the throat of my friend as my metal against anybody that wished me well."
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