BIB_ID
107416
Accession number
MA 38.26
Creator
St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823.
Display Date
1806 Dec. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 24.0 cm.
Notes
Address panel with postmark and addressed to "James Burney, Esq / &c &c &c / James Street / Westminster;" above the address is written "Brentwood twenty ninth December 1806."
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
Asserting his willingness to "bear testimony to your ability as a circumnavigator and ingenuity as an author..."
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