BIB_ID
338622
Accession number
MA 38.25
Creator
Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770-1846
Display Date
1815 Sept. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Address panel addressed to "Capt. Burney, R.N. / Pimlico;" the letter is written from "Reval" which is now Tallinn, Estonia.
Kotzebue left on his expedition July 30, 1815 and returned in 1818.
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.
Kotzebue left on his expedition July 30, 1815 and returned in 1818.
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 Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Apologizing for not getting him the French translation of Admiral Sarychev's voyages as he had promised but telling him that if there are any particular aspects of Sarychev's voyages that interest him, he will be happy to translate those for him; saying that the Emperor [Alexander I] is till abroad but that he has dispatched Captain Kotzebue on his voyage and he has returned to Reval where he will stay until the Emperor returns to Russia.
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