BIB_ID
363350
Accession number
MA 49.22
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Apr. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 25.5 and 20.5 x 25.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Mossgill near / Mauchline."
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).
Franked by W. Kerr.
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).
Franked by W. Kerr.
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
Chiding him for not making more of an effort to attend a dinner to which she invited him: "It's the only time I ever wished an uneasie idea to come across you, but for once I would be gratified by knowing, as you say yourself, that conscience had blackguarded you and spit in your face for not behaving more kindly to me than you did in this instance"; mentioning that she met his friend [Robert] Ainslie; telling him that she brought her daughter's portrait of "Coila" to show him and was disappointed that he did not come; belittling her attempts at poetry; saying she will transcribe a letter she wrote to a friend in response to her friend's claim that "there had been no poet in the British dominions since Pope, nor would ever be another"; noting that she has his "Faery Queen"; observing that he has "taught [her] to understand Spenser."
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