BIB_ID
363675
Accession number
MA 49.74
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 Aug. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 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 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 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
Offering her sympathies following the death of Burns's brother; noting that her son Andrew has a broken arm; reporting that she had to return to Loudoun Castle to help her daughter Susan; mentioning Burns's friend Mr. Dugald Stewart; sending Burns a letter from Mr. Corbet and encouraging him not to "lose his goodwill if it can do [Burns] any good"; promising to send his copy of [James] Mylne's Works to Mossgiel; informing him that she was sick for eight days but is "now quite well again"; telling him that she "will be proud of the posthumous testimony [he] propose[s] dedicating to [her]."
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