BIB_ID
408323
Accession number
MA 35.69
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
2 items (4 pages) ; 7.8 x 13.4 and 15.3 x 15.1 cm
Notes
One fragment has been written on the back of a letter (with an intact seal) addressed to "Madame D'Arblay / Half Moon Street / Piccadilly"; the other fragment also contains the address "Madame D'Arblay / Half Moon Street" and appears to have been part of a letter. FBA moved to 1 Half Moon Street in London in the beginning of 1829. It may be that these are fragments from the Memoirs of Doctor Burney, which she was working on the late 1820s, though this passage does not appear in the published edition.
Both fragments contain the same paragraph, with slight variations, and one has it written twice, on both sides of the page.
Both fragments contain the same paragraph, with slight variations, and one has it written twice, on both sides of the page.
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
Containing the following paragraph: "Mr. Burke was not yet arrived; but young Burke who, when I lived in the midst of things, was almost always, whenever we met, at my side like my shadow, though never offensively, was the person I saw. I felt very glad [...]".
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