BIB_ID
408082
Accession number
MA 35.33
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1819 August 23].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 11.1 x 9.2 cm
Notes
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
FBA gives the place of writing at the end of letter as "Bolton Street," an address in London to which she had moved in the fall of 1818. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
On mourning stationery.
Address panel with postmark: "Capt. Burney, / 26 James Street / Westminster."
FBA gives the place of writing at the end of letter as "Bolton Street," an address in London to which she had moved in the fall of 1818. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
On mourning stationery.
Address panel with postmark: "Capt. Burney, / 26 James Street / 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
Telling James that she has received confirmation about her pension for her service at Court from Joseph Vernon, Receiver of Fees at the Treasury: "Mr. Vernon said to me The Committee, madam, voted the Continuance of your pension: the Parliament granted it; & the Prince Regent [later George IV] has signed your Warrant"; cautioning "[d]o not speak of this publicly, as it may excite envy & jealousy -- but privately tell it to my always faithful friend your other half [his wife Sarah]"; adding that her son Alex has another engagement, otherwise he would have brought this letter.
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