BIB_ID
363793
Accession number
MA 49.88
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1791 Aug. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 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).
In the hand of Janet Little.
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).
In the hand of Janet Little.
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
Explaining that Jenny Little is writing for her; giving him her "accounts of Mrs. Burns [Jean Armour] and her two little ones": "Mrs. Burns I found in all the rosy bloom of health and beauty. I was delighted with the cheerful openness of her countenance, the intelligence of her eyes, and her easy, modest, unaffected manners. My little godson is a perfect cherub, and will be a great fop, for he will not put on his hat since it lost the gold band at the fair. As for the little one, he is a jolly Bacchus, fit to bestride a hogshead, for every limb of him is like my waist"; speaking of a Miss Stewart and a "sewed map" of Scotland; commenting on how "Jenny's great fist has filled up the paper" so quickly, and noting, "if I had wrote myself you would not have got so easily off."
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