BIB_ID
363443
Accession number
MA 49.40
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Dec. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Ellisland / Dumfries."
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. Twenty ninth Decr. 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. Twenty ninth Decr. 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
Reporting that she has returned to Ayrshire and her deafness has disappeared; noting that her spectacles help her so much that she barely notices the loss of her sight; thanking him for a "great packet" he sent to her; asking for his criticism of her poems; praising his "Auld Lang Syne"; telling him that W. Kerr franks letters addressed to "the Scottish Bard" because he thinks favoring Burns "could never be defrauding the publick, who were all his debtors"; mentioning various family members.
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