BIB_ID
363387
Accession number
MA 49.34
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Oct. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Mossgill / Kilmarnock."
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. Tenth 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.
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. Tenth 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
Thanking him for his letter and "half the product of [his] morning's work"; noting that she is not sending her "poetic rambles" lately because "the instrument is jogged out of tune ... by parental solicitudes"; commenting on a serious fire at her daughter's house; asking what "harvest and crop" he has had this season.
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