BIB_ID
363399
Accession number
MA 49.36
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Nov. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Mauchline."
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. Sixth Novemr. 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 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. Sixth Novemr. 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 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
Alluding to the landing of William of Orange; commenting on the second volume of James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum; remarking that they will miss each other in Ayrshire and Haddington; repeating various complaints she has heard about him -- specifically that his works are "immoral and infamous," he "lampoon[s] the clergy," and he is "a scandalous free liver in every sense of the word" -- and explaining how she defended him against the accusations.
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