BIB_ID
363903
Accession number
MA 49.112
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1795 Jan. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes
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.
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.
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 after his family, especially his youngest son who had smallpox; commenting on her time in London; noting that she was with Dr. [John Moore] for about a week; adding that Moore sent Burns "a long and earnest letter" in which he encouraged him to "write Seasons, and paint rural scenes and rural manners, not as [James] Thomson did, but as you would naturally do, [and] he [Moore] would undertake to dispose of the manuscript to advantage"; commenting on the cold weather; sending him her address in London.
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