Letter from Robert Burns, Scotland?, to Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop, 1787 July 30 or 31? : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
429971
Accession number: 
MA 46.3
Author: 
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Created: 
Scotland, 1787 July 30 or 31.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.5 cm
Notes: 

Address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Dunlop-house."
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: Crown above horn inside shield with "GR".

Summary: 

Saying that her verses have given his "spirits a fillip for one day"; writing that he has a long letter to Dr. Moore ready to put into the mail that is on a subject that she has gotten him interested in, so if she wants, there are 20 pages of an epistle she can read; writing that he does not have a copy of Dr. Moore's letter that he can send to her; mentioning that he is going to Edinburgh tomorrow morning by way of Paisley and Glasgow; sending his respectful compliments to Lady Wallace, Miss Logan, the Major, and the rest of her family.