BIB_ID
363633
Accession number
MA 49.62
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 Nov. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Ellisland / Dumfries."
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 seventh Novr. 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 seal.
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 seventh Novr. 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 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 some of her poems, including one addressed to Jenny [Janet] Little; hoping he has "thrown off all [his] complaints"; asking him to send his "Epitaph on Poor Robert Muir."
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