BIB_ID
408069
Accession number
MA 35.29
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1817 April 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 24.3 x 19.6 cm
Notes
FBA gives the place of writing as "Grt. Stanhope Street," the street in Bath where she was living during this period. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
The signature has been cut out of the letter, which has also affected the text of the first page.
Near the address panel, the letter has been annotated with the following: "Bath -- demise / of Ralph Broome."
Address panel with black seal and postmarks: "Captain Burney, / R.N. / James Street, / Westminster -- / No. 26. / Midlesex."
The signature has been cut out of the letter, which has also affected the text of the first page.
Near the address panel, the letter has been annotated with the following: "Bath -- demise / of Ralph Broome."
Address panel with black seal and postmarks: "Captain Burney, / R.N. / James Street, / Westminster -- / No. 26. / Midlesex."
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
Telling him that her nephew Ralph Broome (son of Charlotte) had died the previous day; describing Charlotte's state: "She bears it, nevertheless, with the most edifying resignation -- though she is dreadfully shaken, in health, spirits, flesh, & all that is vital"; writing that she has had a letter from her son Alex about "how irresistible he found truancy again under your kind roof"; adding that she is happy to hear that his work on the fifth volume and the index for his Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea is almost complete; mentioning that "my dear Charlottes [her sister and her niece, both named Charlotte] are lodged within 3 doors of me -- No. 17"; adding that, at her son's deathbed, Charlotte Broome had sent for Dr. Stewart Crawford "before she could resign herself, in the first instance, to a belief that there was not some possibility of re-animation."
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