Autograph letter signed : Kew, to James Burney, [1789] March 10.

Saying that the day she wrote to him she was taken ill, "not much; yet enough to occasion nursing & an apothecary, & to make all appointments, even with you, out of my power"; mentioning that the court is traveling to Windsor this week; proposing that they arrange to meet after she returns from Windsor; commenting on the idea of a carriage ride: "Most gladly would I take the airing my Sister Sarah mentions, were I mistress of a carriage: but alas -- I take no airings but in Company, & can propose no route -- nor would you be very thankful if I did! -- but it is now more than 5 months since I have seen one single friend out of this House! Had I not had the happiness to make one or two in it, I must have almost sunk under the pressure of vacancy, if you can give any quarter to so strange an expression"; sending her love to his wife Sarah Payne Burney and their children Catherine and Martin (Fanny's godson); adding in a postscript that King George III "has sustained great fatigue to day, in making a public entrance into Windsor" and the Queen and Princesses have gone into London "to see the Illuminations, incog[nit]a. I hope they will not be found out, lest the kindess of the mob should terrify them with its turbulence"; describing an elaborate tribute to the King; writing that she is glad that James's neighbors are loyal and that "[n]othing can be more just than your observation that the conduct on the other side has not added to their adherents. The nation, indeed, seems fairly sickened by their inhumanity. This was not a time for Party to interfere; it was truly a curse for every man to take to his own Breast, as a malady to which he was equally liable, since where could it ever arrive more expectedly?"