BIB_ID
363894
Accession number
MA 49.104
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1793 June 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 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 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
Apologizing for how long it has been since she last wrote to him; informing him that the books he sent her have not arrived and she does not know where she should enquire for them; mentioning that she has not been able to hear "this five or six days"; noting that she has the new edition of his poems; thanking him for "the erasure of [the] word ... unhappy" [in reference to William Wallace in "The Cotter's Saturday Night"?]; fretting that she does not know what happened to her daughter Susan's infant son because of the French Revolution; reporting that she recently heard from her son Anthony; telling him that she is reading the letters of "Voltaire and the Great Frederic" and Dugald Stewart's books, and she expects "John Moore's Journal tomorrow."
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