BIB_ID
107127
Accession number
MA 38.39
Creator
Rennell, James, 1742-1830.
Display Date
1819 July 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 22.6 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seals and postmarks and addressed to " Captain James Burney R.N. / &c &c &c / James Street / Westminster / No. 26."
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
Thanking him for the gift of his book; offering his compliments on his research and the authority it has lent to the expeditions findings; saying that "...I cannot for my Life, find out the Enigma of the alternation of current in Behring's Strait & therefore have been silent, for want of facts;" relating the conditions of his failing health; adding in a postscript, "I felt most gratified in getting some fresh & more authentic particulars respecting the death of our great Navigator."
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