BIB_ID
106168
Accession number
MA 9162
Creator
Burke, Jane Mary, 1734-1812.
Display Date
1810 September 6.
Description
1 item (1 page); 24 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Possible recipients of the letter are George Ellis, who was tasked with writing a biography of Windham by his executors but who died before accomplishing it, and Thomas Amyot, Windham's agent and secretary, who published Windham's speeches in 1812 with a prefatory memoir.
The signature appears to be in Jane Burke's hand, and the body of the letter in an another unknown hand.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume II, page 39.
The signature appears to be in Jane Burke's hand, and the body of the letter in an another unknown hand.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume II, page 39.
Summary
Apologizing for not responding earlier but writing that "I really felt, & still do feel, that I am not entitled to take up your time, by even expressing how much I think myself flattered, by being numbered amongst the friends of a person, I so sincerely admired and loved, as I did Mr. Windham. I feel his loss most sorely for he was, from his great attention to me, almost my last support"; writing about what appears to be planned biography of Windham: "It must rejoice all his friends, that you have risqued [for "rescued"] such a man out of hands, that though they might have wishd to do justice to his worth, and talents, might not have been qualified for such a trust."
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