BIB_ID
363525
Accession number
MA 49.47
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 Apr. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. 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. Third April 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 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. Third April 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 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
Discussing Burns's problems with his farm; standing behind her advice to him to choose farming; taking it as a compliment that he followed her advice; directing his attention to [William] Creech's "advertisement in the Edr. Courant for proposals about a professor of Agriculture"; reporting that she met his brother's landlord, and he said that "your brother was a much better farmer, one he would really be sorry to lose, and who had ten times the sense of you. I don't repeat this as chit-chat, but to induce you to examine how the land lies there...."
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