Record ID:
107728
Accession number:
MA 38.35
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description:
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 23.4 cm.
Notes:
The letter is written from "Sternhoff near Reval;" Reval is now known as Tallinn.
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.
Summary:
Thanking him for a copy of Volume 4 of his "Chronological History"[of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean]; commenting on specific details in the history as they relate to what he has discovered in his circumnavigation; saying he is unsure what he will be able to contribute from his Russian expedition but he will send whatever he can collect.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
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