BIB_ID
363555
Accession number
MA 49.50
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1789 May 20].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. 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 "Moffat Twenty Eighth 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 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 "Moffat Twenty Eighth 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 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
Offering her advice about his brother [Gilbert Burns] and their farm; sending him a letter she received from Dr. [John] Moore, as well as her reply to Moore's letter, which she asks Burns to mail for her; asking him to send her his epitaph on R[obert] Muir.
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