Record ID:
363582
Accession number:
MA 49.54
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.8 cm
Notes:
Enclosed in MA 49.52, an autograph letter signed from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns dated June 27-July 13, 1789. Dunlop describes the circumstances under which Little wrote the poem: "The occasion on which she wrot it was to convince a young lady who doubted the authenticity of her having wrot something else she had shewed her, and asked her to write on a given subject. She said she had never done so, but, since she wished it, would try if she would give her one. She told her she had that forenoon broke a glass she was vext about, and bid her celebrate it."
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.
Provenance:
General Sir John Wallace; by descent to Sir William Thomas Francis Agnew Wallace; bequeathed to his brother, Colonel F.J. Wallace; acquired by Robert Borthwick Adam before 1898; purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913, possibly from the London dealer Pearson.
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