BIB_ID
356704
Accession number
MA 714.2
Creator
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817.
Display Date
1788 Nov. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "Earl of Fife / Duff House / N.B."
Docketed on address panel.
Part of a collection of letters relating to the illness of King George III. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Docketed on address panel.
Part of a collection of letters relating to the illness of King George III. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1910.
Summary
Reporting on the King's condition; saying "At Windsor, I am afraid matters are very bad, as nothing transpires that can be depended on -- & my Sister is ordered not to write; as are all the Household. By what I can gather, the complaint is a confirmed insania, with few & slight intervals. All the physical people, whom I have heard mention the case, shake their heads; -- & even the official dispatches from the Doctors, who are in waiting, though they say little say no good. Life is in no danger -- & he may live in this State, for a great length of time. -- This is all bad; -- and what tomorrow [illegible] will produce, no one can tell; -- but fear seems to predominate over hope, and the faces of the people are grave, & their hearts heavy."
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