BIB_ID
407744
Accession number
MA 35.12
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1801 March 18].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 20.3 x 16.5 cm
Notes
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
No place of writing is given on the letter. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Hemlow suggests West Humble as the likely place of writing, based on biographical evidence. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Signed with initials.
Address panel with postmarks: "Capt. James Burney / No. 9 Charles Street / Soho Square / London."
No place of writing is given on the letter. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Hemlow suggests West Humble as the likely place of writing, based on biographical evidence. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Signed with initials.
Address panel with postmarks: "Capt. James Burney / No. 9 Charles Street / Soho Square / 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 him that she is glad to hear that he has reasonable expectations about the likelihood of James Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent (who had just been appointed Lord High Admiral) helping him to find employment: "Lord St. Vincent must reasonably have claims from Those who have served immediately under him, that he is bound in Honour & Justice to satisfy first. That you will have your turn, as soon as it is possible with propriety in regard to his own essential engagements, I have not a doubt..."; asking how it is that Lord St. Vincent knows of him; mentioning that they are all sick "from a most inveterate & invincible Cold which M. d'A. brought from Town, & has made us a present of, that we may all cough in chorus"; relaying an anecdote about her son Alex's memories of his uncle James.
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