BIB_ID
407952
Accession number
MA 35.19
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1814 June 7].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.2 x 11.4 cm
Notes
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
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.
Signed with initials.
Address panel with postmarks: "Captain Burney, / James Street, / 26 Westminster."
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.
Signed with initials.
Address panel with postmarks: "Captain Burney, / James Street, / 26 Westminster."
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 she would have gladly have accepted "the Beau & the Bras" offered to her yesterday (a reference to joining James and his family for tea -- see MA 35.18 for an earlier part of the exchange), but the weather was too damp: "I must wholly shun all Evening walks till the Sun resumes its right station, & knows better what is expected from it in the month of June"; thanking James's wife and daughter (both named Sarah, though the daughter is called "Sally" here) for their invitation and responding that she has pending engagements every day until Friday, but that "Rain, or Illness, shall alone, then, prevent my hob nobing in a dish of tea with my dear Brother and all his."
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