BIB_ID
363468
Accession number
MA 49.41
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1789 Jan. 1].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Ellisland near / Dumfries."
Docketed; date is from docket and first sentence of letter.
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 postmark ("Stewarton") and seal.
Docketed; date is from docket and first sentence of letter.
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 postmark ("Stewarton") and 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
Wishing him "everything good" in the coming year; reporting that she is restored to health; hoping that she will see him at Ayr-fair; encouraging him to visit her when he goes to Haddington; reporting that Mr. [James] Mylne has died, and sending him an elegy she wrote on his death.
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