Autograph letter signed from Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop to Robert Burns, dating to 21 May 1787
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MA 49.9, ‘Autograph letter signed : [Dunlop], to Robert Burns, [1787 May 21].
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Autograph letter signed from Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop to Robert Burns, dating to 21 May 1787
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Autograph letter signed from Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop to Robert Burns, dating to 21 May 1787
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Dunlop begins by explaining why Burns’ last letter offended her, noting that some of his poems were unfair to women and left her feeling mortified and degraded. She adds that in writing in this manner, he has destroyed a scheme she had for his advancement because this scheme involved a number of respectable ladies. Dunlop then remarks that she had been told that Voltaire read all of his manuscripts to an elderly woman, and only printed that which she approved off, adding that she wished Burns had cast her in this role. She concludes by asking if there are still books for sale from the last print run, and quotes Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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3 pp.
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Height: 229 mm
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The letter was addressed to ‘Mr. Robt. Burns / Mr. Creech’s Bookseller opposite / the Cross / Edinburgh.’ This has been crossed out ‘Care of Mr. Ainslie’ added instead. This too has been crossed out and replaced by ‘To be left at the / Post Office / Dumfires.’ A note above the address reads ‘Returned by Dunse’.
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[21 May 1787]
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Owned by Sire John Wallace, from whom it passed by descent to Sir William Thomas Francis Agnew Wallace who subsequently bequeathed it to his brother Colonel F.J. Wallace. Later owned by Robert Borthwick Adam before 1898.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913, possibly from J. Pearson & Co. in London.
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