BIB_ID
430007
Accession number
MA 46.40
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Dumfries, Scotland, 1795 August.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.1 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Possible date of writing from Ferguson.
Postmarked, with partial seal; 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.
Postmarked, with partial seal; 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.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: BALFOUR.
Summary
Enclosing The Dumfries volunteers, Tune, Push about the jorum, "Does haughty Gaul invasion threat ..." (The Dumfries volunteer); writing that this parcel is a bad bargain at the price it costs her for him to send it; adding that Miss Keith will see that he omitted the four lines on the ci-devant Commodore which offended her; hoping to hear from her soon.
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