BIB_ID
408318
Accession number
MA 35.67
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1814 March 31].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.7 x 11.7 cm
Notes
No date or place of writing is given. However, based on internal evidence and FBA's other letters from around the time of the publication of The Wanderer, Bloom and Bloom suggest that this letter may have been written on March 31, 1814, from 63 Lower Sloane Street in London. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Addressed to: "Mr James / Charles / Burney / Westr." The address is positioned on the verso in a way that suggests, Bloom and Bloom argue, a complex folding of the letter.
Addressed to: "Mr James / Charles / Burney / Westr." The address is positioned on the verso in a way that suggests, Bloom and Bloom argue, a complex folding of the letter.
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 it is impossible for her to come see them, because she has letters to write and because the next day she is going to visit "Susan Adam, the last nurse & attendant of our lost Sister [Susanna] -- who lives at the Primate of Ireland's"; writing that she is "in a flutter of spirits inexpressible -- Paris -- France --my Book!!"; adding that she is also thinking of her son Alex, "always an anxious subject"; referring to her novel The Wanderer and the fact that the protagonist's identity is only gradually revealed: "Lock up 4 vols. & read fairly -- & let no one peep"; discussing the sending of a package.
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