BIB_ID
429994
Accession number
MA 46.27
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Dumfries, Scotland, 1790 July 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (8 pages, with address) ; 32.6 x 20.1 cm or smaller
Notes
With seal; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Loudon Castle."
With separate address leaf.
Pages 1-4 measure 18.5 x 12.6 cm. Pages 5-8 measures 32.6 x 20.1 cm. Address leaf measures 19.6 x 32.4 cm.
Watermark: Britannia in crowned circle (address leaf and leaf 2); countermark BAND (leaf 2).
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.
Pages 1-4 measure 18.5 x 12.6 cm. Pages 5-8 measures 32.6 x 20.1 cm. Address leaf measures 19.6 x 32.4 cm.
Watermark: Britannia in crowned circle (address leaf and leaf 2); countermark BAND (leaf 2).
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
Sending her an elegy that he thought she might like; mentioning that he received a letter about the death of his brother who was only 23 and it made him think of Mrs. Henri; saying that he is not collected enough to write her a letter, but is glad she and Miss Dunlop are doing better; stating that he just finished the stanzas he mentioned in his last letter and dedicates them to her; asking permission to prefix her name if it gets published; including the Elegy of Captain Matthew Henderson, "O Death thou tyrant fell & bloody ..." (Elegy on Capt. M--- H---, a gentleman who held the patent for his honours immediately from almighty God!).
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