BIB_ID
363902
Accession number
MA 49.111
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1794 Sept. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 30.8 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
Acknowledging receipt of his last letter, but calling him to account for its small size and short length; noting that his last letter offended her: "I found something beneath you in the affected modesty of being afraid to tire my patience in reading any thing from your Muse"; noting that his "goddess" [Liberty] has "acquire[d] so very bad a name, that I find it no longer fit to acknowledge my favour of her [Dunlop was horrified by the violent turn the French Revolution had taken]; critiquing his "Ode to Liberty"; encouaging him to visit her; alluding to a story that he had "lost [his] office and [was] gone to London"; asking for news of his family.
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