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Letter from Robert Burns, Edinburgh, to Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop, 1789 February 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
429981
Accession number
MA 46.14
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1789 February 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 19.1 cm
Notes
Dated "Saturday morning."
Postmarked; 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: J. BUTTANSHAW.
Summary
Saying that he received her packet and can tell how interested she was in the subject; replying that once he has returned to Nithsdale he will write a criticism on their merits; expressing how unhappy he is in Edinburgh because of business; announcing that he is to be a father again in 2 or 3 months and that the child will be christened by the name of Frances-Dunlop if a girl or Francis if a boy.