BIB_ID
107903
Accession number
MA 38.28
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
[1814-1815].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 23.0 cm.
Notes
Address panel to "Capt. Burney;" endorsed on the address panel "R. Southey."
Burney published his "History of the Buccaneers of America" in 1816.
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.
The notes are not dated, however, in "The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four: 1810-1815", the dating note refers to a letter dated November 4, 1814 from Southey to John Rickman in which he refers to the notes he is compiling for Burney; the note suggests that the memoranda were "probably compiled and sent shortly after this, giving a date of between late 1814 and early 1815.
Burney published his "History of the Buccaneers of America" in 1816.
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.
The notes are not dated, however, in "The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four: 1810-1815", the dating note refers to a letter dated November 4, 1814 from Southey to John Rickman in which he refers to the notes he is compiling for Burney; the note suggests that the memoranda were "probably compiled and sent shortly after this, giving a date of between late 1814 and early 1815.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Providing notes on the "geographical & statistical accounts of the Spanish progression in S. America;" being brief notes of exploits from 1591 to 1741.
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