BIB_ID
363541
Accession number
MA 49.48
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 Apr. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.4 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 health of King George III; noting that "everything around [her is] on too large a scale for [her] present enjoyment; discussing how happy she was to receive his letter; expressing her thanks that he has named his son Francis Wallace; giving details of a professorship at the University of Edinburgh; mentioning her aversion to cats; describing her reaction to his poem about a hare; sending him some of her poetry and wondering at "the ease ... with which [she] scribble[s] all [her] nonsense to [him], as a child would scratch mathematical schemes to Sir Isaak Newton, had it happened to find a bit of chalk on his desk."
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