Record ID:
407722
Accession number:
MA 35.8
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.
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