BIB_ID
429973
Accession number
MA 46.5
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Ayrshire, Scotland, 1788 March 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.4 x 19.7 cm
Notes
With seal; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Dunlop-house / Stewartown."
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.
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: "IV".
Summary
Writing three lines of a poem "Speak, Sister, is the deed done? ..."; announcing his return from Edinburgh; saying that he gave up all literary correspondence, all conversation, all reading (prose-related); giving his favorite quotation of the moment; describing how he read Mr. Mckenzie two of her pieces and his positive reaction to them and his request of a copy, which Burns declined; expressing that his future letters wil be "miserable scraps."
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