BIB_ID
407700
Accession number
MA 35.5
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1790 August 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.1 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
FB gives the place of writing as "Queen's Lodge, / Windsor."
Address panel with postmarks and intact seal: "Capt. Burney, / Norton Street, / Portland Place, / London."
FB gives the place of writing as "Queen's Lodge, / Windsor."
Address panel with postmarks and intact seal: "Capt. Burney, / Norton Street, / Portland Place, / London."
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
Thanking James for the trouble he has taken on her behalf and commenting "I suppose Stocks will now fall -- from the present rumours revived. Here nothing transpires, except a determination of Honour or War"; explaining why she has taken upon herself "the cruel task of revealing a melancholy old story" (possibly a reference to one of the Court Plays she was writing during this period); sending her regards to his wife Sarah and daughter Catherine, and a "gentle salute for my Godson" (Martin); adding that she will be in London on September 9th and hopes to see him at her "Royal abode"; writing "I did pass the Road which should have made us meet -- how could you expect Truth from people whose very name Stains my paper as I write it?"; bidding him "Adieu, my Dear Brother Brother, for so our dear Daddy [either a reference to their actual father or the family friend Samuel Crisp] calls you -- I only wish I had a little more trouble to give you...".
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