BIB_ID
408108
Accession number
MA 35.38
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1821] September 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.5 cm
Notes
No year of writing is given, but Hemlow argues, based on biographical evidence, that it was written in 1821. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
FBA gives the place of writing as "11 Bolton Street," the address in London at which she was living during this period.
Signed with initials.
FBA gives the place of writing as "11 Bolton Street," the address in London at which she was living during this period.
Signed with initials.
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
Explaining that she must delay their "James Street Tea-age," because she is on call to Princess Sophia, who may summon her at any time; writing that after Thursday she expects she will have all her evenings free; mentioning that she has not heard from Alex, who is in Turin; thanking Sarah Payne Burney for the loan of her daughter Sarah's letters (Sarah was also in Italy, on her wedding tour); responding to Mrs. Burney's comments about slyness in her daughter's letters: "I trust you will not be sharp upon a Bride for wanting a Cooing shed with her love --? as to the Slyness -- 'tis neither more nor less than an anxiety to avoid seeming to oppose any plan or wish of yours joined to... What? -- out with it! -- a private resolution to have her own way! -- But pappys, as well as mammys must allow for the spoilt indulgencies in all their fancies usually accorded to the Bridal first year. Don't shorten its Charm"; telling him that she has looked at the lists of those being honored next year and "find[s] you in such good company"; writing of the pleasure it gives her to sign herself "An Admiral's Sister"; mentioning that she recounted James's story to Princess Sophia, since she had heard that the Duke of Clarence (to whom James had appealed for his promotion) and his wife (the Princess Adelaide) would be passing through London and might call on Her Royal Highness.
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