Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Ellisland / near / Dumfries."
With postmark and 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.
Telling him that she has "been witness or sharer in so many distresses ... where the heart was the part affected, that a broken bone or lacerated fibres ... hardly claim [her] attention"; noting that the fact that he wrote to tell her about his broken arm suggests to her that he is recovering; critiquing his elegy on Miss Burnet; reporting that some ladies to whom she read the poem thought "'tis too imitative of [William] Shenstone's cumbrous pride and pompous exit of princes"; informing him that she is returning to Dunlop soon; congratulating him on "the one or two children ... just a-coming"; mentioning a visit from his brother.