BIB_ID
429983
Accession number
MA 46.16
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Dumfries, Scotland, 1789 April 3.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.4 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Postmarked, with seal; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Dunlop-house / Stewarton."
With separate address leaf.
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 separate address leaf.
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: S. LAY.
Summary
Writing that he has just finished the following political squib and needs to send her a copy, the only copy he will send anybody except anonymously to a London newspaper; including Ode to the departed Regency Bill "Daughter of Chaos' doting years! ..." (Ode to the departed Regency Bill); rushing to send this to the post for her.
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