BIB_ID
363891
Accession number
MA 49.102
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1792 Dec. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 24.7 and 24.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Excise Officer 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 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 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
Telling him that she was unwell the last day of his visit, and describing her troubles with gout and jaundice; fretting about Burns's health, and mentioning that [James Makittrick] Adair told her Burns was unwell; noting that the servants who accompanied her daughter to France have returned and she dreads hearing "last accounts of [her] poor Susan, and the situation of her poor infant from those faithful witnesses"; arguing that there is "something revolting to the female heart in a man's reducing a woman's provision to prevent her making a second marriage"; quoting a speech from [Richard] Glover's Leonidas; advising him to ride a horse and garden for his health; wondering if he wants her assistance in obtaining a supervisorship in the Excise; asking him to send her "[William] Cowper and [John Moore's] Zeluco."
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