BIB_ID
363492
Accession number
MA 49.43
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 Jan. 22].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24 cm
Notes
Date of writing is from published version of the 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.
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.
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
Discussing a snow storm that has affected Burns's plan to visit Dunlop; asking him not to edit "the New Year's Day piece" [a poem he wrote to her] because "every address to a friend or from a friend ought to stand in the first chalk, the spontaneous effusion of the soul, uncorrected by any secondary consideration"; noting that she won't write to him "this great while" because she is "going to be very busy sewing shirts for [her] son"; noting that she would get him "Voltaire's Maid of Orleans, but [she has] heard such a character of it that [she is] afraid [she] ought not to take it into [her] own hand, or reach it to [his]"; mentioning that she met his "favourite Mr. [James] Adair."
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