BIB_ID
363328
Accession number
MA 49.20
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Mar. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Mr. Crouch's Master of the / Grammar School / 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
Discussing [Edmund] Spenser's Faerie Queene; commenting on his "kind present of [Thomas?] Gray" to her daughter Keith and her daughter Rachel's efforts at a sketch of "Coila"; repeating that she considers his correspondence "as an acquisition for which [hers] can make no return, as a commerce in which [she] alone [is] the gainer"; mentioning Henry Fielding's Tom Jones,
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