Autograph letter signed : Paris, to James Burney, [1815 February].

Record ID:

408123

Accession number:

MA 35.41

Author:

Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.

Credit:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.

Description:

1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.1 x 18.2 cm

Notes:

Alexandre d'Arblay has added and signed a short letter to James on the third and fourth pages.
No date of writing is given and there are no postmarks. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Hughes posits that this letter was written around, though before the actual date of, February 22, 1815. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Address panel with part of a seal: "Capt. Burney, / James Street, / Westminster."
Also on the address panel is a note in the hand of James Burney: "pray direct & send off by post for Mrs. Broome."

Summary:

[FBA]: Saying that "[m]elancholy & affrighting accidents" (probably a reference to Monsieur d'Arblay being struck by a cart in Calais) have derailed her plans to go to Tours; mentioning that she has written Esther and Alex with the details and will not re

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.

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Department:

Literary and Historical Manuscripts