BIB_ID
363393
Accession number
MA 49.35
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Oct. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.7 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.
With 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).
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 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
Reporting that the past week has brought her "a son and a grandson"; discussing the arrival of Mr. Henry, the Swiss mountaineer who is marrying her daughter; noting that her daughter-in-law was "really ill," but she hopes to be able to leave her "well and nursing her little charge" soon; asking him to tell her whether she can expect to see him in Ayrshire at her return.
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