BIB_ID
363883
Accession number
MA 49.101
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1792 Nov. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Officer of Excise Port Division / 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
Reporting that she has "not been one day well" since she last wrote to him; commenting on her daughter Susan's death in France; noting that she is "perfectly satisfied of the tenderness and affection with which [Susan] has been treated, and the fond protector she has secured for her little infant in his grandfather"; telling him that she is going to try to return to Ayrshire in two days, but she has "never stood so much in awe of a journey"; hoping she may see him in Ayrshire.
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