BIB_ID
408321
Accession number
MA 35.68
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
[1814 April 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20 x 12.5 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 argue that this letter was written on April 2, 1814, from 63 Lower Sloane Street in London. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Written in the third person.
Written in the third person.
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
Concerning the publication, sales and promotion of the novel The Wanderer: arguing that the book should be advertised in "All the Papers" for three days, as she is receiving "perpetual enquiries" about whether it is available yet; asking when the set of volumes for the Queen will be ready; sending on the news that "Various Booksellers say they are suspected of keeping back the Book"; writing that Henry Colburn, proprietor of a fashionable lending library, has only received thirty sets out of the hundred he was supposed to get and "his Customers reproach him"; proposing that "[t]he Advertisement should mention, to end 1000 false reports, the truth -- i.e. That the 1st Edition was all gone 3 Days before publication."
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