BIB_ID
363619
Accession number
MA 49.58
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 Sept. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 25 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 "Edinr. Twenty third Sept. 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 "Edinr. Twenty third Sept. 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
Describing how happy she was to receive his letter and how much she loves his "Cotter's Saturday Night"; mentioning Janet Little and encouraging him to write to her; sending him some verses; reporting that "there are proposals printed for publishing Mr. [James] Mylne's works," and asking if she may "honour the subscription with [his] name."
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