BIB_ID
363900
Accession number
MA 49.109
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1794 May 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.8 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
Chiding him for his "obstinate and unkind silence"; adding that she "cannot feel truly happy deprived of those testimonies of [his] kind remembrance with which [he] used so frequently to favour [her]"; noting that this is the fifth time she has written to him since his last letter, and asking what she has done to deserve this treatment; writing that she "despair[s] of ever getting another line from [him]," and she wonders whether her "insipidity" or his "unsteadiness" is to blame; mentioning the birth of "Francis Wallace the second."
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