Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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

BIB_ID
363701
Accession number
MA 49.77
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 Nov.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Ellisland near / Dumfries."
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
Remarking that she heard from Mr. A[rchibald] Lawrie that Burns has "this season the finest crop the land had carried this twenty years"; noting that sometimes his silence makes her suspect he "rather endured as wished [her] correspondence"; chiding him for ignoring the requests in her letters; sending him a poem she wrote "on a French gentleman's coming to Scotland to visit the grave of his Swiss friend buried there among the descendants of Sir William Wallace"; saying that she won't write again until she has more news of her daughter Susan to tell him.