BIB_ID
363767
Accession number
MA 49.80
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1791 Jan. 28].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 12.2 cm
Notes
Docketed; date is from docket.
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 seal.
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 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
Informing him that she is still at Loudoun Castle; inquiring as to whether he received the letter she wrote on New Year's Day; reporting that her grandson is doing well and her daughter is recovering; saying that she is busy with "the care of her daughter's house and child"; asking him to "write first post."
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