BIB_ID
363642
Accession number
MA 49.64
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 Jan. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. 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
Commenting on her first reading of his poetry; describing how "the poignancy of [his] expression soothed [her] soul"; mentioning that she has heard from her son Anthony, and he is alive and well; noting that she is concerned by "the melancholy strain" of his last letter; quoting lines by [Thomas] Hutchinson; telling him that she just got a letter from [John] Moore, who wishes to know Burns's opinion of Zeluco; worrying that Burns is too ill to write.
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