BIB_ID
363355
Accession number
MA 49.25
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 June 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Mosegill / near / Mauchline."
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. Address is in Kerr's hand, along with "Edinr. Fifth June 1788" above the address.
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.
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. Address is in Kerr's hand, along with "Edinr. Fifth June 1788" above the address.
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
Noting that she just learned he has "been a month married"; telling him, "I am unwilling to believe so important an era of your life has past, and you have considered me as so very little concerned in what concerned you most as never to give me the most distant hint of your wishing such a change or of its accomplishment"; sharing in his complaints about the cost of postage; asking him about a word she did not understand in Lady Mary Wortley Montague's letters; wondering whether he liked the Tasso she sent him.
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