BIB_ID
407943
Accession number
MA 35.18
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1814 May 31].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.3 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
FBA gives the place of writing at the end of the letter as "63. Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea."
Address panel with black seal and postmarks: "Captain Burney, / James Street, / Westminster / 26."
FBA gives the place of writing at the end of the letter as "63. Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea."
Address panel with black seal and 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
Writing that his doubts "have caused me unspeakable disturbance & surprise: but I have been patient, for I was sure that your reflexions, with a fair retrospection of the whole of my sisterly life, would do me justice in your honest heart" (this is possibly in reference to the divisions in the family caused by their father Charles Burney's will); adding that she hopes they meet very soon and that she will "drink tea at your house as soon my young Beau [her son Alex] arrives to give me le bras home."
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