BIB_ID
407722
Accession number
MA 35.8
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1795 May 15.
Credit line
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."
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."
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
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"; adding "I hope heartily your House in Town will go off. And that your House at Mickleham will stick a hand!"
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