BIB_ID
189580
Accession number
MA 9159
Creator
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Display Date
[1788 February].
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Burke gives the place of writing as "Gerrard Street." Burke lived at 37 Gerrard Street in London in the late 1780s.
Burke gives the date of writing only as "Monday Eveng." In The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Furber suggests a dating of February 1788 based on the timeline of the trial of Warren Hastings. See page 379 in the Correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Written in the third person.
In The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Furber notes that this letter is in the hand of Jane Burke, Edmund Burke's wife.
A note has been added to the top of the letter in an unknown hand, reading: "The Right Honble Edmund Burke -- / a manager for the prosecution of Warren Hastings / and distinguished Speaker in the House of Commons."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume II.
Burke gives the date of writing only as "Monday Eveng." In The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Furber suggests a dating of February 1788 based on the timeline of the trial of Warren Hastings. See page 379 in the Correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Written in the third person.
In The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Furber notes that this letter is in the hand of Jane Burke, Edmund Burke's wife.
A note has been added to the top of the letter in an unknown hand, reading: "The Right Honble Edmund Burke -- / a manager for the prosecution of Warren Hastings / and distinguished Speaker in the House of Commons."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume II.
Summary
Presenting his compliments to Sir Peter Burrell and asking for a ticket to the Warren Hastings trial for Walker King; explaining that King had a ticket issued in the name of George Stanton, but it was taken from him: "This last Gentleman [King] has been, & is so usefull to Mr Burke, that he scarcely know [sic] how to do without him. Hitherto Mr King has come in upon a casual ticket; but not finding one today, he offerd Mr. Stantons. Mr Burke therefore requests the release of the ticket thus embargoed, & (if not too much to ask) another pass ticket for Mr King."
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