BIB_ID
408307
Accession number
MA 35.61
Creator
Maisonneuve, Marie-Françoise-Elizabeth de Fay de Latour-Maubourg, Madame de, 1770-1850.
Display Date
[1819 June].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 20 x 12.4 cm
Notes
With a note in FBA's hand: "On Mme de Maisonneuve's presentation / [illegible word] the Circle chez the duchess of Gloucester." She has also dated the letter "June, 1819"; there is no other date of writing given.
Madame de Maisonneuve's brother was appointed Ambassador to the Court of Great Britain in the spring of 1819, and she accompanied him to England. FBA refers to this news in a letter that she wrote to Princess Mary on March 4, 1819; this letter appears in The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 11: Mayfair 1818-1824; letter 1196B, pages 69-74.
Address panel: "A / Madame D'arblay / 11. Bolton Street."
Madame de Maisonneuve's brother was appointed Ambassador to the Court of Great Britain in the spring of 1819, and she accompanied him to England. FBA refers to this news in a letter that she wrote to Princess Mary on March 4, 1819; this letter appears in The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 11: Mayfair 1818-1824; letter 1196B, pages 69-74.
Address panel: "A / Madame D'arblay / 11. Bolton Street."
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
Describing her presentation to the Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Mary (the fourth daughter of King George III).
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