BIB_ID
107419
Accession number
MA 38.40
Creator
Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770-1846.
Display Date
1821 Nov. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address), bound ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "Captain James Burney, R.N. / F.R.S. / London / N. 26 James Street / Westminster."
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
Relating news of the return of Baron Wrangel's expedition north up the Kolyma River to Cape Shalezkey [Shelagsky]; saying that he "saw no symptoms of land so that the question of Asia & American joining, an opinion which you yourself were not altogether against, is I think unsettled;" telling him the specifics of the hydrographical memoirs he is writing and his hopes that Arrowsmith might wish to publish it; asking for his [Burney's] help with Arrowsmith; saying that he has "begun to construct a new set of charts on a different and more extensive plan than Arrowsmith's charts of that sea;" discussing his thoughts for future explorations; adding that there are those in Russia who may disagree with him, "but under the reign of Emperor Alexander, every one is safe who raises his voice in favor of humanity."
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