BIB_ID
363593
Accession number
MA 49.55
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 Aug. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 25.6 and 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert 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 "Edinburgh Third August 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.
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 Third August 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
Commenting on his claim that "writing to [her] is an incentive to rhyme"; saying that she feels she is nearing the end of her life; reporting that she has had no word of her son Anthony; describing her troubles with her family; complaining that her eyesight is failing; mentioning that W. Kerr, who franks her letters to Burns, has been promoted.
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