BIB_ID
407969
Accession number
MA 35.21
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1815 April 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 24.7 x 20.3 cm
Notes
The "Irish business" that FBA refers to in this letter is a mortgage that her father Charles Burney held on a farm in Ireland owned by her sister Susanna's former husband Molesworth Phillips. FBA and her sister Esther inherited the value and proceeds from the mortgage on their father's death in 1814. The mortgage is also discussed in MA 35.25, MA 35.52, and MA 35.57-59.
Address panel with postmarks: "Angleterre. / Captain Burney / James Street / 26 / Westminster / London."
Address panel with postmarks: "Angleterre. / Captain Burney / James Street / 26 / Westminster / 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
Saying that she has just seen "in an English news paper a paragraph stating an Epidemical fever at Cambridge -- & that the students are removed elsewhere"; asking James for news of her son Alex: "if he be ill -- oh James, write yourself, & I will quit even his Father (though at this moment with agony from suspense of his destined course, & the sight of his shattered state of health,) to nurse him myself"; describing Monsieur d'Arblay's sufferings (caused by a road accident and his military service) and their worries about Alex; mentioning that d'Arblay is on medical leave and currently with her in Brussels; writing that they have had no word from William Locke or his mother Frederica Locke about the sale of Camilla Cottage; adding that she has heard nothing about the second edition of The Wanderer, "[a]nd never did I as now want to regulate my money affairs"; asking Martin for news of the "Irish business"; mentioning that she has had letters from no one "but my Alex & my dear Charlottes [her sister and niece, both named Charlotte] -- yet I would use this opportunity to write again All Round were my mind less disturbed."
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