BIB_ID
363822
Accession number
MA 49.94
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1792 May 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Officer of Excise at / 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
Mentioning a letter she received from [William] Corbet; trying to make Burns feel guilty about not writing to her frequently enough; telling him that she is "in want of [his] consolation at this moment" because "one of the men on earth to whom [her] family lay under the most weighty obligations has shot himself through the heart a few days ago."
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