BIB_ID
363437
Accession number
MA 49.39
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1788 Dec. 3].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / at Ellisland near / Dumfries." An earlier address, "Mossgill / Mauchline," has been crossed out.
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 Decemr. 1788"; date is from frank and docket.
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 Decemr. 1788"; date is from frank and docket.
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
Telling him that she is going to continue to send him letters, but he should only read them if he has time; commenting on the busy life of farmers; instructing him not to visit her if the "fatigue and loss of time" will have a negative impact on his farm or his family; asking him about the addressee of his song "Clarinda"; commenting on his poems.
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