BIB_ID
430005
Accession number
MA 46.38
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Dumfries, Scotland, 1794 September.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Date of writing from Ferguson.
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: J LARKING.
Summary
Writing "I think that the Poet's old companion, Poverty, is to be my attendant to my grave"; updating her on the financial situation of his brother's farm; informing her that his wife just had their fourth son, James Glencarin, in memory of his lamented patron; adding that he will make all of his children's names "altars of gratitude"; asking when she heard from the East and if she heard from little Wallace; talking about a girl in town who was really sick and how his friend Dr. Maxwell saved her life; addressing the following epigram to Maxwell, "Maxwell, if merit here you crave ..." (To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's recovery); including another epigram beginning "So vile was poor Wat, such a miscreant slave ..." (On W. R---, Esq.); stating that he will write her some ballads in a day or two.
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