BIB_ID
429986
Accession number
MA 46.19
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Dumfries, Scotland, 1789 July 7-8.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (5 pages, with address) ; 32.2 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Bottom half of page 1 dated "July 8th."
Postmarked, "Dumfries," with seal; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Dunlop-house / Stewarton."
Leaf 3 measures 28.5 x 19.6 cm.
Watermark: Britannia in circle with crown (leaf 2); countermark: BAND (leaves 1 and 3).
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.
Postmarked, "Dumfries," with seal; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Dunlop-house / Stewarton."
Leaf 3 measures 28.5 x 19.6 cm.
Watermark: Britannia in circle with crown (leaf 2); countermark: BAND (leaves 1 and 3).
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.
Summary
Responding how pained he was to read that she thought he had given up on her correspondence; stating how out of spirits he has been; (dated July 8th) showing his appreciation for her and Dr. Moore mentioning him to Mr. Pulteney and showing his admiration for him; writing an elergy that he wrote some time ago, but was never printed, Elergy, "Strait is the spot & green the sod ..." (20 lines) and that he has marked the passages that strike him the most.
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