BIB_ID
363433
Accession number
MA 49.38
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Nov. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
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.
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.
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
Informing him that she has been "very ill"; noting that she has "been almost blind and wholly deaf for a fortnight past"; saying that she pities King George IIIl; reporting that she goes to Edinburgh on Wednesday if she is feeling well; describing a meeting with a friend from her childhood; mentioning [James] Mylne.
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