BIB_ID
106020
Accession number
MA 9151
Creator
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Display Date
[1791 July 1].
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.3 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Burke gives the date of writing only as "Friday." In The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Cobban and Smith suggest a dating of July 1, 1791 based on the docketing and the calendar for 1791 (July 1st was a Friday). See page 279 in the Correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Docketed: "(without date) / Rt. Honble. Edmd. Burke / Rx 4th July 1791."
Written in the third person.
Removed from a copy of John Romney's Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1830).
Docketed: "(without date) / Rt. Honble. Edmd. Burke / Rx 4th July 1791."
Written in the third person.
Removed from a copy of John Romney's Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1830).
Summary
Presenting his compliments to Dundas and telling him that one "Mellar" or "Millar" (possibly a reference to the Scottish jurist John Millar) has his letters directed to Peter Elmsley, a bookseller in the Strand, and moreover that he "frequents that foreign Pandemonium the Orange Coffeehouse at the bottom of the Haymarket"; reporting that Millar "proposed to leave Town as yesterday. When he left town first, he said he meant for Oxford & Scotland"; professing himself ready to see Dundas at any time; concluding "Excuse the Liberty I take, weak & improper perhaps, but well intentiond, that this seems to me a moment for some decision in the foreign System so far as it regards France -- Surely a step may be taken with great safety, great dignity & great Effect. The time for it may pass."
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