BIB_ID
363915
Accession number
MA 49.113
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
ca. 1787 July 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
A fair copy of a poem Dunlop sent to Burns in MA 49.10, an autograph letter signed dated July 30, 1787.
Based on a quotation from [John] Gay: "This world's a farce, and all things show it; / I thought so once, but now I know it."
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.
Based on a quotation from [John] Gay: "This world's a farce, and all things show it; / I thought so once, but now I know it."
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.
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