Autograph letter signed : Great Bookham, to James Burney, 1795 May 15.

Record ID: 
407722
Accession number: 
MA 35.8
Author: 
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description: 
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.9 x 11.7 cm
Notes: 

Frances Burney d'Arblay [FBA] gives the place of writing as "Bookham Hermitage."
Alexandre d'Arblay [M.d'A] adds his greeting and signature at the bottom of the letter.
Address panel with postmarks: "Captn. Burney, / James Street, / Westminster."

Summary: 

Writing that she has heard rumors that James, his wife Sarah and their son Martin may spend a year in Mickleham (near Great Bookham in Surrey); commenting that both she and her husband Alexandre d'Arblay "desire & wish nothing so much in this World"; addi

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.