BIB_ID
363373
Accession number
MA 49.31
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Sept. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / at Ellisland, Care of Mr. John M'Murdo / Carse, Dunscore / by Dumfries."
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.
With notes in Burns's hand on p. [4].
With postmark and 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).
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 notes in Burns's hand on p. [4].
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
Expressing her pleasure that Burns "found writing [her] a relief to that corroding gloom which sometimes obscures the brightest minds"; reporting that her health improved after she drank "two pounds of hemp seed boiled in small beer"; commenting on her daughter's marriage to "a native of a foreign land"; critiquing a poem by Burns ["Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry"]; complaining that jaundice has made her skin "yellow and thick and uncouth."
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