BIB_ID
363638
Accession number
MA 49.63
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1789 Dec. 11-24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (8 p., with address) ; 22.9 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. Thirtieth Decemr. 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 trace of a 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. Thirtieth Decemr. 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 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 how much she enjoys their correspondence; mentioning Jenny [Janet] Little; reminding him that he promised to send her his "lines on Capt. Grose"; trying to "produce [his] written obligation to send [her all he] write[s]"; praising the poems he has sent her; noting that she thinks Loudoun Castle "the dullest place in the world"; worrying about her son Anthony; complaining that "the most dreadful weather still keeps" her at Loudoun Castle on Dec. 24; telling him that she has been reading [William] "Falconer's Shipwreck" and recommending it to him.
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