BIB_ID
363686
Accession number
MA 49.75
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 Aug. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 24.4 and 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. R[obert 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 "Edinr. Twenty first Aug. 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.
The two sheets of this letter are not bound on consecutive pages.
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 "Edinr. Twenty first Aug. 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.
The two sheets of this letter are not bound on consecutive pages.
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
Commenting on the copy of James Mylne's Works that she sent to Burns; mentioning the wedding of Dugald Stewart and her trip to Catrine; discussing a legacy left to her son-in-law after his death, and noting that she does not think her daughter and grandchild will be able to claim any of it; passing on a message from Jenny [Janet] Little; complimenting his elegy on Matthew Henderson; reporting that her son's arm is better but her widowed daughter still keeps to her room; sending him a poem, "My Fair Euphrosine."
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