BIB_ID
407677
Accession number
MA 35.4
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1790 August 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.6 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
FB gives the place of writing as "Queen's Lodge, / Windsor."
Address panel with postmarks: "Capt. Burney, / Norton Street, / Portland Place, / London."
On the address panel, there is what appears to be a series of sums, written in an unknown hand.
FB gives the place of writing as "Queen's Lodge, / Windsor."
Address panel with postmarks: "Capt. Burney, / Norton Street, / Portland Place, / London."
On the address panel, there is what appears to be a series of sums, written in an unknown hand.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905 as part of a collection of Burney's correspondence and fragments of manuscripts, bound in three volumes. Disbound in 1925.
Summary
Telling him that the court will not be going to London this week or the following one; writing that she has heard from her sister Susanna that their father has brought to Chelsea "the Draft of my Fortune, & that he is very agreeable to my taking your advice, & begging your assistance in its disposal"; mentioning her desire to discuss and resolve the matter quickly; writing that she has "worked for you -- & perhaps I need not mention in vain"; asking after her niece Catherine, and telling James that "your young Cub, as you so disrespectfully call him, behaved as well at Court as if born & bred there" (probably a reference to James's son Martin).
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