Autograph letter signed : Great Bookham, to James Burney, 1797 May 11.

Writing to him about money: "I hate to torment you -- but what can poor folks do? We really stand abominably in need of that same £25 which we begged for you to receive for us of Mr. Mathias" (referring to Thomas James Mathias, Treasurer of the Accounts of the Queen's Household, from whom FBA received her pension); discussing in detail the administrative process required for receiving the pension; asking if the money could be sent to them via "Mr. Locke's [l]ittle Garden Cart, which brings & carries parcels once a week"; telling him that her husband Alexandre d'Arblay has written once again to Walter Shirley (a relative of Molesworth Phillips, Susanna's husband) about an unpaid debt and "received a rather more satisfactory answer"; adding, however, that "we have no news of our Susanna & we are very ill at ease. She has never yet been so long silent to me. If you have had any account whatever from or of her, pray mention it. Mr. Shirley says he has seen the Major [Phillips] lately, but does not name our sister"; mentioning that she has read James's pamphlet "Plan of Defence against Invasion", and disagrees with the opinion that the Prince of Wales (later King George IV) should be sent as Lord Lieutenant to Ireland; continuing "yet I see many things in which I concur, & several strokes which I sincerely admire. And M. d'A. -- a far better judge, upon matters of calculation especially, speaks warmly in praise of the Measures proposed, & the depth of reflections they combine"; describing the Spithead and Nore mutinies as "the most dreadful & alarming menace of all"; discussing her father Charles Burney's reaction to the events: "I supposed our dear Father must be almost sunk -- or on the rack -- by the present turn of affairs. For God's sake preserve him & yourself from entering upon these subjects at this sore period!"; sending love to his wife Sarah Payne Burney, asking after her stepsister Maria Rishton, and describing her husband's supervision of the building of their new house: "defying this new winter, he is constantly at the house --".