BIB_ID
408133
Accession number
MA 35.44
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1812 September].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 11.3 x 18 cm
Notes
This letter is undated. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Bloom and Bloom suggest that it was written on or near September 9, 1812, based on biographical evidence. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
No place of writing is given. Bloom and Bloom argue that the letter was probably written from 23 Chenies Street in Chelsea, where FBA was living in 1812.
Addressed at the foot of the second page to: "Capt. Burney, / James Street."
No place of writing is given. Bloom and Bloom argue that the letter was probably written from 23 Chenies Street in Chelsea, where FBA was living in 1812.
Addressed at the foot of the second page to: "Capt. Burney, / James Street."
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
Saying that she would prefer not to consult his physician who is "now by several pronounced to have passed his best days & to possess no longer his fine discernment & sagacity"; writing that many other people have recommendations of doctors for her: "Charles is earnest I should rather advise with Dr. [Astley] -- the Cambridges are wild I should see Dr. Baillie -- my Father himself thinks our former Aesculapius [referring to Walter Farquhar] no longer himself"; commenting that she does not want to change her doctor or plan of treatment at the moment, arguing "suppose you make me change my Larrey system, & then that I should no longer amend? -- ? -- ah, my dearest James, who would be sorry like you?"
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