BIB_ID
407941
Accession number
MA 35.17
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1814 March 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.4 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
No place of writing is given. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Bloom and Bloom suggest that this letter was probably written at 63 Lower Sloane Street in London, where FBA was living during this period. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Address panel with postmarks: "Captain Burney, / James Street, / Westminster / 26."
No place of writing is given. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Bloom and Bloom suggest that this letter was probably written at 63 Lower Sloane Street in London, where FBA was living during this period. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Address panel with postmarks: "Captain Burney, / James Street, / Westminster / 26."
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
Regarding copies of her novel The Wanderer, whose publication date was on March 28: telling James that "[y]ou shall have the set, with one of which I beg your own, & Mrs. Burney's affectionate acceptance, on Saturday: which is my first day of distribution, save one to Windsor on Friday"; proposing a dedication to Honoratus Leigh Thomas (who was attending physician to both James and her son Alex) and his wife Anne in one copy; telling him that she has had news of Monsieur d'Arblay from Paris and that Alex "goes on most delectably."
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