BIB_ID
363348
Accession number
MA 49.21
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1788 Mar.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / at Mossgill / near Mauchlin."
Docketed; date is from docket.
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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed; date is from docket.
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 postmark and 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
Congratulating him on his decision to take the farm at Mossgiel, and noting that it "renders [him] truly estimable and respectable"; writing, "I hope you will not neglect the farm so far as to make you poor, and I trust your cultivation of the Muses shall one day make you rich"; recommending "a few poetic friends as an evening solace in [his] retirement"; encouraging him to visit her; extending a invitation to dine with an unnamed Major; telling him that she is leaving books for him at Wilson's including [Alexander] Pope's Homer, [John] Dryden's Virgil, and [John] Hoole's Tasso; reminding him that he promised to send her his "address to the wild ducks" ["On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Loch Turit"].
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