BIB_ID
430001
Accession number
MA 46.34
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Dumfries, Scotland, 1793 June.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.5 x 20.9 cm
Notes
Postmarked, "Dumfries"; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop / Dunlop-house / 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.
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.
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Watermark: Countermark: TF.
Summary
Writing that he sent her a parcel of books a while ago and hopes she received and enjoyed them; including a epigram "which I made the other day on a stupid, money-loving dunderpate of a Galloway lairs--Maxwell of Cardoness" "Bless Jes-s Ch___, O Cardoness ..."; writing another as to why God made Miss Davies so little and Mrs. S--- so big; describing Miss Davies and Mrs. S---; writing "Ask why God made the gem so small ..."; adding that he thinks the previous was "pretty enough," but he has been outdone lately by a humble acquaintance; including another epigram, "Silence in love shews [greater (deleted)] deeper woe ..."
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