BIB_ID
363771
Accession number
MA 49.82
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1791 Mar. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24 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 has felt "vext, uneasie, or angry" because he has not written to her in so long; noting that her pride will be severely wounded if she "become[s] convinced" that he writes to her "with reluctance"; speculating about why he has not written; mentioning that she is still at Loudoun Castle with her daughter, but she may return to Dunlop any day; sending her best wishes to Mrs. Burns.
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