BIB_ID
80504
Accession number
MA 46.44
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.
Display Date
Mauchline, Scotland, 1788 May 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.8 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel has been cut.
Dated "Saturday morn."
With seal, partial address panel reads "lop house."
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 "Saturday morn."
With seal, partial address panel reads "lop house."
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: indecipherable design inside oval.
Summary
Writing "Do you know that except from your Mother and the good family, my existence or non-existence is now of as little importance to that Great World I lately left, as the satelites of the Georgium Sidus is to a parcel of your Ditchers"; expressing how he lives his life modestly and appreciates his friendship with Mrs. Dunlop; adding that Mrs. Dunlop will not entirely enter into his motives of his conduct so he kept aloof from the affair altogether; stating that he will be in Glasgow next week and if he is at home, he would like to see him.
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