BIB_ID
363806
Accession number
MA 49.92
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1792 Jan. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (7 p., with address) ; 25.1 and 24.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / 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).
Franked by W. Kerr at "Edinr. Twenty Eighth Jany. 1792."
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 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).
Franked by W. Kerr at "Edinr. Twenty Eighth Jany. 1792."
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 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
Acknowledging receipt of his letter; doubting his claim that he was unable to take up a pen except for business for so many months, but expressing her pleasure that he wrote to her at last with such "native, unaffected kindness"; reporting that she is reading [Alexander] Wilson's poems; worrying that Wilson's poems will "hurt Jenny [Janet Little] by comparison"; noting that she has "not been well for some days past"; describing two scientific experiments; telling him that she has not heard from her children in some time; sending her blessing to her godson, Francis Wallace Burns.
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