BIB_ID
363880
Accession number
MA 49.100
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1792 Sept. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Officer of Excise Port Division / Dumfries."
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.
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
Reporting that she has a new granddaughter; commenting on the "uncertain weather" during the "heart of harvest" and observing, "Were you here, you would ... be thankful you were now no farmer"; telling him that her daughter Susan is "at this moment doomed to struggle with a severe, perhaps a fatal fever in a foreign country" [France].
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