Autograph letter signed : Loudoun Castle [near Galston], to Robert Burns, 1790 July 22.

Record ID: 
363669
Accession number: 
MA 49.73
Author: 
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.1 cm
Notes: 

Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Ellisland near / Dumfries."
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Includes an autograph note signed with initials from W. Kerr, indicating that he received the letter on July 28.
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.

Summary: 

Thanking him for his concern about her; reporting that Nanny is recovering slowing and Susan is still quite unwell; writing a poem about her dead son-in-law; discussing how much she admires his poetical abilities.

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.