BIB_ID
363895
Accession number
MA 49.105
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
[1793] Aug. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Officer of Excise Port Division / Dumfries."
Docketed "6 Aug. 92," but published version of the letter uses 1793 as the year.
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 "6 Aug. 92," but published version of the letter uses 1793 as the year.
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
Discussing a recent visit from old friends; noting that she still continues to be deaf, and thus visits from friends are "cruelly tantalizing"; reminiscing about her daughter Susan; commenting on the French Revolution: "what a melancholy thing is it to think what a succession of guilt and misery has been attendant on the emancipation of that unhappy country"; informing him that friends of hers [the Vans] will be in Burns's part of the country and she has given them a letter of introduction to Burns; wishing she had someone to frank her letters to Burns.
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