BIB_ID
363625
Accession number
MA 49.61
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1789 Oct. 18].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Ellisland / near 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).
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).
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, "On Seeing Miss G--"; explaining that she cannot mail the letter through Kerr [i.e. for free] because "he knows how negligent" she has been in her correspondence; enclosing an unspecified sum of money to cover the cost of receiving her letters.
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