BIB_ID
363648
Accession number
MA 49.67
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 Mar. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.6 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
Telling him that she "can no longer refuse [her]self the indulgence of writing [him a letter], in spite of [his] silence"; noting, "There is no pleasure the fine arts can give, at least that I have taste to receive, that I have not at times shared from your varied pen"; discussing how much she values their correspondence; worrying that his baby boy is unwell; mentioning her own ill health and its treatment; reporting that she is "reading Pensées de [Michel de] Montaigne" and transcribing two quotations from the book; wondering if he will revisit her "part of the world."
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