BIB_ID
429970
Accession number
MA 46.2
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1787 March 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Consists of the postscript and address panel only.
With seal; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Stewarton."
Part of a collection of 54 letters and poems from Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop between 1786 and 1796. Also housed with MA 45. See related records for more information.
With seal; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Stewarton."
Part of a collection of 54 letters and poems from Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop between 1786 and 1796. Also housed with MA 45. See related records for more information.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Countermark: C. TAYLOR.
Summary
Writing that he corrected the last proof sheet of his poems and now only has the glossary and subscribers names to print; adding that he has a second and third edition going on as the second had too small a number of copies and that the whole he has printed is 3,000; saying "what is wanting cannot be numbered."
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