BIB_ID
408273
Accession number
MA 35.59
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1814 May].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.8 x 13.5 cm
Notes
There is no date of writing. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Bloom and Bloom argue that this was written in May 1814, the period during which Fanny and Esther Burney offered the third share in the "Irish mortgage" first to James, and then to Martin and Sarah. See MA 35.52 and 35.57-58 for related letters.
No place of writing is given. Bloom and Bloom posit that this letter was probably written at 63 Lower Sloane Street in London, where FBA was living at this time. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Addressed to "Martin Burney Esqr."
No place of writing is given. Bloom and Bloom posit that this letter was probably written at 63 Lower Sloane Street in London, where FBA was living at this time. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Addressed to "Martin Burney Esqr."
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
Discussing the share of the "Irish mortgage" and her feelings about James's refusal of it; asking Martin to "beg his digne fils to relieve me, at least, from a burthen to my conscience which could not weigh upon it without doing me a serious injury"; enclosing the share and concluding "[a]t all events, I will see the enclosed no more! I solemnly vow I have done with it for-ever! And neither remonstrance nor persuasion shall ever induce me to take back what I would far rather wish threefold further to send forth. So help me God!"
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