BIB_ID
408271
Accession number
MA 35.58
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1814 May 28].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.2 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
No place of writing is given. Bloom and Bloom posit that this letter was probably written at 63 Lower Sloane Street, where FBA was living at this time.
Address panel with postmark: "Martin C Burney Esq / James Street / Westminster / 26."
No place of writing is given. Bloom and Bloom posit that this letter was probably written at 63 Lower Sloane Street, where FBA was living at this time.
Address panel with postmark: "Martin C Burney Esq / James Street / Westminster / 26."
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
Writing that, since James Burney has refused a share of the proceeds from "the Irish mortgage" (see MA 35.52 and MA 35.57), they would like to offer it to Martin and his sister Sarah: "That we should not have begun with you, your own filial feelings will easily explain, but, as my Brother's refusal is positive, & has been re-iterated, accept now, without scruple, at first hand what, finally, was always meant for you"; adding that Esther and Monsieur d'Arblay have both given their approval to this proposal; mentioning d'Arblay's negotiations with William Locke and Bolton Hudson over Camilla Cottage (Hudson was the cottage's tenant); asking Martin to "draw up a little agreement that your Aunt Burney & I will sign, in case any accident should happen to either of us before our intentions are fulfilled"; giving details about the financial arrangements to be followed, including how Martin and the other lawyer John de Gourcey will be paid, what amount should go to their sister Charlotte, and the final disposition of the shares and property.
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