Autograph letter signed : West Humble, to James Burney and Sarah Payne Burney, 1801 March 29.

[M.d'A]: Writing that "your Sister rejoices at your not being ordered yet to tread the watery Steps of the unfortunate Invincible" (the H.M.S Invincible had struck a sandbar and sunk on March 17th); adding that, when the Earl St. Vincent appoints James to the command of a ship, he will drink "a bumper of Small beer to the health of his Lordship"; asking him to "pay at Mssr Coutts on my account the Mickleham 50 pounds"; sending his love to James's children Sarah (called here "Sally") and Martin; [FBA]: discussing the issue of the £50 (which appears to have been loaned to their sister Susanna and spent by her husband Molesworth Phillips): "It was lent Her -- that beloved Angel, to facilitate her return -- & though by him accepted, & used in part as I have found by her own writings, for debts of his previous to their setting out, yet so far its purpose was answered, as that of drawing her from that detestable spot where her Death Bell was rung, -- & therefore let the principal alone be paid, as was meant in the loan"; writing that she expects that they will see James before he sets sail, as Lord St. Vincent has other officers that he must appoint first; writing to Sarah that their "colds [...] are still lurking & oppressive, though on the wane: but I think we shall not miss joining our Cheer to the general huzza that must hail our Brother's nomination"; commenting on the financial terms of her step-sister Maria Rishton's separation from her husband, and the effect it may have on her other step-siblings Richard and Stephen; discussing her son Alex's health: "You will find our poor Alex terribly thin, by long discipline, for the Cold first, & now for worms: we wish to recruit him before we venture him to town."