BIB_ID
363356
Accession number
MA 49.26
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 June 16-17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes
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.
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.
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
Telling him, "Cease ... to say your portion in life must be poverty and insignificance. As to the first, I shall not presume to foretell, although I think the supposition very improbable. For the other, I aver it is utterly impossible, if Britain is not overrun by something worse than Goths and Vandals"; assuring him that "the ideas a poet has put on paper are ever his"; transcribing various epitaphs from church tombstones; discussing a carpenter named Burns in Haddington; chiding him because he has still not answered her question about whether he is married now.
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