BIB_ID
363898
Accession number
MA 49.107
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1794 Feb. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23 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
Asking why he has not written or visited her; telling him that she will soon be going to Edinburgh and then to Morham for her daughter-in-law's lying-in; mentioning that she has a New Year's gift for Burns's son but does not know how to send it safely; pressing him to visit her; noting that she has for him John "Moore's Journal, where [he] will find a quotation from [his] 'Tam o'Shanter.'"
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