Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Ellisland near / Dumfries."
With postmark and seal.
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
Remarking that she heard from Mr. A[rchibald] Lawrie that Burns has "this season the finest crop the land had carried this twenty years"; noting that sometimes his silence makes her suspect he "rather endured as wished [her] correspondence"; chiding him for ignoring the requests in her letters; sending him a poem she wrote "on a French gentleman's coming to Scotland to visit the grave of his Swiss friend buried there among the descendants of Sir William Wallace"; saying that she won't write again until she has more news of her daughter Susan to tell him.