BIB_ID
408226
Accession number
MA 35.54
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1821 November 26].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 18.4 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
There is no place of writing given. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Hemlow posits that this letter was probably written from 11 Bolton Street, FBA's address in London at this time. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Signed with initials.
On mourning stationery.
Address panel with black seal and postmark: "Mrs. Burney / James Street / 26 / Westminster."
There is no place of writing given. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Hemlow posits that this letter was probably written from 11 Bolton Street, FBA's address in London at this time. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Signed with initials.
On mourning stationery.
Address panel with black seal and postmark: "Mrs. Burney / James Street / 26 / Westminster."
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 will be with her tomorrow; discussing the death of her brother James in the context of the deaths of other family members and of her husband: "I am now tamed by grief & my feelings are under the awe of resignation. -- Happiness once Gone -- sorrow cannot give the same blight as when it had That to fasten on -- but still, the wound is piercing -- & will rankle at my heart to the remnant of my days"; writing of her fears about re-entering James's and Sarah's house; adding that she will be returning to Frederica Locke's home in Eliot Vale immediately afterwards, and bringing her son Alex with her; writing "Pray let me find you quite alone -- in your own room, if any body is below"; mentioning that she would like to see Sarah Burney Payne (James's daughter) and thanking her for her letter; adding "I wish I could also have seen poor Martin -- tell him I truly grieve for him -- & will receive him as soon as he is able & disposed to come to me after I am again in London"; commenting on the obituary of James that appeared in the Morning Chronicle and which she (mistakenly) believes to have been written by James's friend John Rickman; adding that she is glad that Sarah and her daughter will be going to stay with the Rickmans in Epsom.
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