BIB_ID
407708
Accession number
MA 35.6
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1790 October 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.6 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
FB gives the place of writing as "Queen's Lodge, / Windsor."
Address panel with postmarks and part of a seal: "Captain Burney, / Norton Street, / Portland Place, / London."
FB gives the place of writing as "Queen's Lodge, / Windsor."
Address panel with postmarks and part of a seal: "Captain 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
Telling James that he was right regarding "our last political disquisition. -- It has for this moment blazed out here -- But as you come uppermost in my Mind, I cannot forbear writing the instant I hear it, though I have no doubt other intelligence will reach you first"; describing the reaction of one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting to the news that the Guards are to be mobilized, and adding "I only mention this, to show you, by the surpise of Lady [Courtham], so high in confidence as well as in office, how very universally the secret has been kept"; telling him that she has discussed his letters about his claim on Lord Chatham (John Pitt, then First Lord of the Admiralty) with Major Garth, one of the King's equerries, and passing along Garth's advice; mentioning, in reference to the military mobilization, "I suppose to-morrow's newspapers will be in a flame."
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