BIB_ID
102557
Accession number
MA 38.21
Creator
Gambier, Samuel, 1752-1813.
Display Date
1786 May 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 23.3 cm.
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and addressed to "James Burney Esq. / Chessington / Kingston / Surry;" above the address Gambier has written "London May fourth 1786."
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Offering his congratulations on the "great change that has taken place in our situations" [Burney married 8 months prior in September 1785); inviting him to visit him in Hampshire; asking for the return of a trunk he had lent him.
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