BIB_ID
408145
Accession number
MA 35.46
Creator
Arblay, Alexandre Jean Baptiste Piochard, comte d', 1754-1818.
Display Date
1794 December 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 19.3 cm
Notes
There is a complete (though unsigned) letter from Susanna Burney to James on the second page. See the note in the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
M.d'A gives the date of writing as "18. Xbre 1794" ("Xbre" being an abbrevation for the French "decembre") and the place of writing as "Bookham."
Address panel with postmarks: "Capt. Burney / James Street No. 26 / Westminster."
M.d'A gives the date of writing as "18. Xbre 1794" ("Xbre" being an abbrevation for the French "decembre") and the place of writing as "Bookham."
Address panel with postmarks: "Capt. Burney / James Street No. 26 / Westminster."
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
[M.d'A]: Writing of the birth of his son Alex: "In a very few years, my dear James, Martin will have a walk-fellow cousin, already two hours old. If I had got a Girl, I meant to give her to him as fellow of an other Kind. As my Son is provided with a neighbouring wife, Thus all is quite well, and his whole time will be employed to follow Martin without being stopped in his running by some adroite Coquette. the Mother and her Child are quite well"; [SB]: writing of her joy at the "happy Deliverance"; saying that Fanny is insisting that she write today to their aunt Rebecca, who is currently at James's house, though "[s]he will I think be better pleased to have news of the dear Soul 3 or four days hence, which I will then certainly write to her"; sending her "affectionate remembrances" to his wife Sarah and son Martin; mentioning that Esther has received "the draft safe wch. I mentioned to you in my last."
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