Autograph letter signed : Loudoun Castle [near Galston], to Robert Burns, 1790 Nov. 16.

Record ID: 
363728
Accession number: 
MA 49.78
Author: 
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Date: 
1790 Nov. 16.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.5 cm
Notes: 

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.

Summary: 

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."

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.