BIB_ID
363547
Accession number
MA 49.49
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1789 May 3].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Ellisland / Dumfries."
Docketed; date is from docket.
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 "Edinburgh Sixth May 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; date is from docket.
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 "Edinburgh Sixth May 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
Sending him a poem entitled "Fragment"; noting that she begins to despair of ever seeing him again; speculating that he will not "leave Mrs. Burns till the strangers [babies] are introduced, and she well again"; reporting that she hears Dr. [John] Moore is publishing a novel; saying that London is a "fatal whirlpool, that has sucked in several of [her] friends"; telling him that everyone will know he wrote "Regency Bill" if it is printed.
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