BIB_ID
363803
Accession number
MA 49.91
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1791 Oct. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Ellisland / by 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 the misses his letters more than usual because she is also "deprived ... of all the friends of [her] former life"; commenting on how much she enjoys and values their correspondence; asking if she has "done anything to disoblige one [she] so much wished to fix [her] friend"; also asking if he is "so perfectly indifferent about [her] happiness as not to care how much [his] neglect mortifies and distresses [her]"; commenting on the death of Lady Wallace; requesting that he write, "if but by a single line," to let her know "how the children are" and whether he received her letters.
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