BIB_ID
363821
Accession number
MA 49.93
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1792 Apr. 20].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 25.1 and 24.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robert Burns / Dumfries."
Docketed ("1 April 92").
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. Twentieth April 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 postmark and seal; date is from postmark.
Docketed ("1 April 92").
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. Twentieth April 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 postmark and seal; date is from postmark.
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
Commenting on how much time has passed since she last wrote to him; asking for his opinions on the poetry of [Alexander] Wilson; admitting that she hopes "to have some pleasant sparring with" Burns "about this new poet's rural songs, town eclogues, and familiar epistles"; commenting on Wilson's "disinterested, generous conduct" to Jenny [Janet] Little; chiding him for his lack of interest in whether or not she writes to him: "were I silent all eternity, you would never drop a single line to say 'what ails my friend, or has she forgot me?'"; reporting that Willie Kerr, who franks her letters to Burns, is ill, and adding that she won't be able to send Burns as many letters because she "should never have the conscience to let [him] pay for [her] letters"; telling him that she has heard from her daughter and received news from her son in India; asking about Burns's children, and her godson in particular.
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