BIB_ID
430002
Accession number
MA 46.35
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Dumfries, Scotland, 1793 August 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.5 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Postmarked, "Dumfries," with seal; address panel reads "Mrs. Dunlop / of Dunlop / Dunlop House / Frn. P. Miller. Stewarton."
Separate address leaf; measures 19.3 x 31.3 cm.
Docketed in ink.
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.
Separate address leaf; measures 19.3 x 31.3 cm.
Docketed in ink.
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: Crown above coat of arms.
Watermark: Countermark: Crown above horn, GR.
Watermark: Countermark: Crown above horn, GR.
Summary
Writing her a song which he composed the other day to an old Air called Allan water, a river in Perth-shire, "By Allan-side I chanc'd to rove ..." (Allan Water); inquiring if she is acquainted with any of the principal people concerned in the new Royal Bank in Glasgow; requesting a favor for a young fellow, John Drummond, in a clerk's place if she has the connections and gives his qualifications.
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