BIB_ID
363661
Accession number
MA 49.72
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 July 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns at 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
Noting that she cannot remember when she last wrote to him; explaining that the last week has contained "health, happiness, sickness, death, and the grave"; commenting on her daughter's illness of the same fever than killed her son-in-law Henri; describing herself as being "between the sick beds, wandering like a trouble ghost till, worn out with anguish and fatigue, [she] seek[s] rest in complaining to [her] God and to the only friend not already overwhelmed with the sight of misery"; asking him to write to her.
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