BIB_ID
363361
Accession number
MA 49.28
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1788] July 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
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.
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.
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
Observing that he probably won't be able to visit Ayrshire for any length of time because of his responsibilities at home; noting that "the tenderness of [his] mention of the return to an absent wife makes [her] eyes flow and [her] heart wring" because "it recalls too forcibly scenes never ... to return to [her]"; speaking about her children at length; commenting on a letter from her son Anthony; sending Burns £5 as a wedding present; .
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