BIB_ID
388932
Accession number
MA 8704.1
Creator
Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817.
Display Date
[1793].
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), 18.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal.
Docketed by Fanny Burney and with an additional note in the hand of Charlotte Barrett.
Part of a collection of five letters from Madame de Staël to Fanny Burney.
Docketed by Fanny Burney and with an additional note in the hand of Charlotte Barrett.
Part of a collection of five letters from Madame de Staël to Fanny Burney.
Summary
Saying that when she learned to read English she "began by Milton, to know all or renounce it all at once," and remarking that she will follow the same system in writing her first letter in English to Fanny Burney.
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