BIB_ID
363377
Accession number
MA 49.32
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Oct. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 25.4 and 22.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns at Ellisland / care of Mr. John M'Murdo / Carse Dunscore / 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).
Franked by W. Kerr at "Edinr. Third October 1788."
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.
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 at "Edinr. Third October 1788."
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
Expressing her happiness that he wrote to her four times in August; writing, "I'm sure if ever in any moment or matter my being in this world has contributed to make you easier, I cannot express how much your telling me so has made me happier"; suggesting that he reword a phrase in "Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry"; alluding to his failure to tell her about his marriage; noting that she does not trust herself to be in debt because she is "so miserable an economist"; asking if he can tell her "whose marks the different letters are in Johnson's Museum" [James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum]; mentioning the pregnancy of her daughter-in-law and commenting on the happiness of her son's marriage; hoping Burns is still at Ellisland to receive this letter.
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