Addressed to "Mr. Robert 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. Nineteenth Nov. 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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Reporting that her daughter Susan has just had "a fine boy"; quoting a poem that Jenny [Janet] Little recited to the new baby; noting that the same day "bought ... intelligence of the general peace, and private pleasures by letters from India, saying James [her son] was well, and Anthony [another son] appointed to a ship now in China."