BIB_ID
363470
Accession number
MA 49.42
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
ca. 1789 Jan. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.9 cm
Notes
"Addrest to Robt. Burns."
Included with MA 49.41, an autograph letter signed to Burns dated Jan. 1, 1789.
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.
Included with MA 49.41, an autograph letter signed to Burns dated Jan. 1, 1789.
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
An elegy for James Mylne, a recently deceased Scottish farmer and poet.
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