BIB_ID
430011
Accession number
MA 46.46
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Scotland, no date.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Possibly written to Agnes Dunlop.
Dated "Monday morn."
With seal; address panel reads "Miss Dunlop / Dunlop-house."
Watermark: crown with PRO PATRIA below.
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.
Dated "Monday morn."
With seal; address panel reads "Miss Dunlop / Dunlop-house."
Watermark: crown with PRO PATRIA below.
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
Writing "Tho' I am not always what Glenham calls, 'The shallow fool of coward conscience' yet I have something in my bosom, a kind of feeling of Propriety or Impropriety where I am the veriest coward on earth. -- My horrid sin of this kind against you has compleatly [sic] gagged me that I can't write to. or approach you, were it to redeem me from perdition"; adding that he will call at Dunlop-house on Wednesday or Thursday.
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