BIB_ID
363521
Accession number
MA 49.45
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1789] Feb. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.6 cm
Notes
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.
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
Commenting on the work she has put into making "six holland shirts" for her son; telling him that she is going to send him £5 when she "know[s] her letters go so safe as may tempt [her] to trust" putting money in them; wondering if he received her last two letters; enclosing additional letters and a poem; sending him some altered lines of her elegy for [James] Mylne.
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