BIB_ID
363897
Accession number
MA 49.106
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1793 Sept. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.5 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 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 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
Informing him that she received his letter and the box of books he sent; reporting that her friends the Vans just left, and noting that they will pass Dumfries "in about a fortnight"; commenting on her age and infirmity; telling him that she received the two volumes of the new edition of his poems "with the joy of beloved and familiar friends"; mentioning that [John] Moore was asking after him; regretfully explaining that she does not have the necessary connections to secure a position for his friend at the bank in Glasgow; wishing she could do more to advance Burns's position and to "make [him] more happy and at ease"; asking if he has any plans to visit Ayrshire; noting that she is reading [Restif de La Bretonne's] Nuits de Paris; adding that she has made inquiries and the bank in Glasgow "is yet a very uncertain scheme."
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