BIB_ID
363523
Accession number
MA 49.46
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 Mar. 18.
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 / Dumfries."
Docketed.
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 first March 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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
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 first March 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.
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
Thanking him for his letters; sending him a poem; commenting on the poems he sent to her; observing that she "dare not ask what is busying or troubling [him], since [he doesn't] yet like to say"; thanking him for his intention to name his next child after her, but telling him that he has "made a miserable choice, for a sad worthless name it has proved to nineteen who have already worn it."
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