BIB_ID
137650
Accession number
MA 63.15
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
1833 Mar. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Annotated by Fanny Burney d'Arblay: "Mr. Southey on Memoirs of Dr. Burn[ey] To the Revd. A. d'Arblay."
Formerly bound with a collection of letters and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney (MA 38).
Formerly cataloged as a "Copy of a letter from him in the hand of Charlotte Barrett," but the letter is apparently autograph.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Robert Southey. Items have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Formerly bound with a collection of letters and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney (MA 38).
Formerly cataloged as a "Copy of a letter from him in the hand of Charlotte Barrett," but the letter is apparently autograph.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Robert Southey. Items have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Listed in Bernard Quaritch catalog no. 234 (1904), no. 42; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Quaritch in 1905.
Summary
Thanking him for a copy of his mothers "Memoirs of Dr. Burney." Praising the work, noting "Evelina did not give me more pleasure when I was a schoolboy than these memoirs have given me now. And that is saying a great deal." Further remarking that "Except Boswell's there is no other work in our language which carries us into such society & makes us fancy that we are an acquaintance with the persons to whom we are there introduced."
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