BIB_ID
363561
Accession number
MA 49.51
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 June 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 25.6 and 22.9 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.
The two sheets of this letter are not bound on consecutive pages.
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.
The two sheets of this letter are not bound on consecutive pages.
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
Expressing her apprehensions that her daughter may die in childbirth; commenting on the illness and deaths in her house during the past month; wondering why he has not written to her lately, and worrying that she did something to displease him; telling him that she received books for him from [William] Creech, including [John Moore's] Zeluco and Charlotte Smith's Sonnets; promising to send the books to him via [John] Wilson at Kilmarnock; sending him "some lines" she wrote; enclosing a letter from Dr. [John] Moore related to a professorship at the University of Edinburgh.
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