Record ID:
407924
Accession number:
MA 35.13
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description:
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.3 x 19 cm
Notes:
FBA spells the place of writing as "West Hamble."
Address panel with postmarks: "Capt. Burney, / No. 72 Margaret Street / Cavendish Square / London."
Summary:
Telling James that the military commission her husband Alexandre d'Arblay had received has been annulled and he will not be going to St. Domingo after all (he had accepted the commission from Napoleon Bonaparte with the caveat that he would never fight ag
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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