BIB_ID
107200
Accession number
MA 38.23
Creator
Coke, Thomas William, Earl of Leicester, 1752-1842.
Display Date
1801 Oct. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 23.5 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to " Capt. Burney / No. 9. Charles St. / Soho Sq. / London."
It is possible that this letter refers to Burney's repeated petitions for a new command following his forced retirement from the Navy for insubordination in 1782.
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.
It is possible that this letter refers to Burney's repeated petitions for a new command following his forced retirement from the Navy for insubordination in 1782.
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
Referring to the return of Peace [possibly the Treaty of Amiens]; hoping that it "may be of long duration;" asking him to leave his name at the Admiralty and when he returns to town he will mention his name "once more to his Lordship."
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