BIB_ID
107199
Accession number
MA 38.12
Creator
Burney, James, 1750-1821.
Display Date
1781 July 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 32.2 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Dr. Burney / St. Martins Street / Leicester Fields / London."
Burney's application to Lord Shuldham for a larger ship is described in MA 38.11.
Dr. Charles Burney was a music historian and the father of James Burney.
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.
Burney's application to Lord Shuldham for a larger ship is described in MA 38.11.
Dr. Charles Burney was a music historian and the father of James Burney.
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
Informing his father that he has had a reply to his request to the Admiralty to be assigned to a larger ship; copying out the letter of reply from Sir Philip Stephens, Secretary to the Admiralty, informing him that command of the vessel will be turned over to Lieutenant Cadman; telling his father that he will wait in Plymouth to be relieved by Lieutenant Cadman and then will come to London; expressing confidence that his complaint has been redressed and that "I shall not long remain unemployed."
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