BIB_ID
363734
Accession number
MA 49.79
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1790 Dec. 31]-1791 Jan. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (8 p., with address) ; 25.2 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 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).
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.
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
Telling him that she had another grandchild born at Morhame; mentioning Jenny [Janet] Little; praising his poems; wishing him "all the new joys of the New Year"; talking about her new grandson at Loudoun Castle in glowing terms; enclosing "a New Year's gift" for Burns's son; lamenting Burns's decision to give up farming; criticizing the "levities" and "impurities" in his verses, and wishing he would "emulat[e] the chaste pen of [James] Thomson"; asking for help understanding a paragraph in French.
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