BIB_ID
407989
Accession number
MA 35.23
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1815 October 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.8 x 11.2 cm
Notes
FBA gives the place of writing as "La Sabloniere Hotel / Leicester Fields."
Signed with initials.
Address panel: "Capt. Burney, / James Street, / Westminster. / No. 26."
Signed with initials.
Address panel: "Capt. Burney, / James Street, / Westminster. / No. 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
Saying that she and her husband have just arrived in England, "fatigued & harassed, but impatient to see & embrace all our Kin & Kind -- All of whom will forgive our first desire being to possess our Alex -- who, I am just told, is again under your hospitable roof"; mentioning that she has reserved a room at the hotel for Alex and he will come to them directly; sending her love to his wife Sarah Payne Burney and their children Sarah and Martin; writing that James should expect to find "my better half cruelly changed by all his misfortune! Alas! & quite lame still!"
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