BIB_ID
363659
Accession number
MA 49.70
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 May 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (7 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. R. Burns / Ellisland / 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).
Franked by W. Kerr at "Edinburgh Seventeenth May 1790."
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).
Franked by W. Kerr at "Edinburgh Seventeenth May 1790."
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
Explaining that she is writing him a long letter on large paper because W. Kerr has returned to mail it for free; noting that she neglects her friends and family to write to him; commenting on her son Anthony, who has gone as a mate from Bombay; reporting that she has been reading [Jacques] Necker's Religious Opinions; telling him about Jenny [Janet] Little's "unfortunate accident" that "once threatened the loss, if not of life, at least of a limb"; describing a visit to Skelmorlie and commenting on an American woman who lives there; sending him her ballad on King George III; discussing his next visit to Ayrshire.
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