Record ID:
408163
Accession number:
MA 35.48
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description:
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 20.7 x 16.4 cm
Notes:
This letter is written jointly by M.d'A and FBA. M.d'A writes a letter to James on the first page; then FBA writes a letter to James on the second page and a separate letter to Sarah Payne Burney on the third page.
M.d'A signs his letter, and FBA signs both of her letters (with her initials).
Address panel with postmarks: "Capt. James Burney / No. 9 Charles Street / Soho Square / London."
Summary:
[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
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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