BIB_ID
105949
Accession number
MA 38.31
Creator
Burney, James, 1750-1821.
Display Date
1815 May 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 23.5 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seal to "Will.m Hazlit, Esq.re;" it was originally addressed to "John" Hazlit, but John has been crossed through and "Will.m" written above it; Burney has also written "John Hazlit Esq.re" in the bottom left corner of the letter and above the word "(Copy)."
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.
The attack to which Burney refers is an unfavorable review of Fanny Burney's novel, "The Wanderer" which appeared in The Edinburgh Review in February 1815; the novel had been published in March 1814.
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.
The attack to which Burney refers is an unfavorable review of Fanny Burney's novel, "The Wanderer" which appeared in The Edinburgh Review in February 1815; the novel had been published in March 1814.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Ending their friendship; saying that "It would be strange, if not wrong, after years of intimate acquaintance, that cause of offence should happen between us, and be so taken, and be passed over in silence, and that acquaintance still continue. Your attack on my sister's [Fanny Burney] early publications dissatisfied me, and the more in coming from a quarter I had been in the habit of believing friendly. If I had seen it before publication, I should have remonstrated against some of your remarks because I think them unjust. Your publication of such a paper showed a total absence of regard towards me, and I must consider it as the termination of our acquaintance."
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