Autograph letter signed "Frances Burney" to her sister Esther "Hetty" Burney.
Lynn Regis: July 1770]. 1¼ pp., single tall sheet (380 x 230 mm). Bound in (though now detached from) half morocco binding. Condition : folds and creases, small chips and separations; binding with boards detached and other wear. Provenance : Frank Fletcher (bookplate on front pastedown). early burney letter regarding her sister's marriage . Esther Burney accepted the marriage proposal of Charles Rousseau Burney, her first cousin, in June 1770. At the time, however, Charles Burney was travelling in Europe conducting the research for his Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) and did not learn of the engagement until after the marriage. This letter largely concerns his absence and the spreading news of the engagement. Burney writes, in part: "…We are now in daily expectation of the important letter from papa -- and let me say one thing -- it seems to me not unlikely that immedately that papa receives the last pacquet, he will write to my uncle. I hope therefore that you have ere now acquainted him with your affairs, or else that you directly will, as it would be shocking for him to hear of it first from abrad, and as he would then perhaps always believe that you intended to seret it from him. how can it have got about, God knows, but every body here speaks of your marriage as a certain and speedy affair. So you will have it in town. I fear mama cannot go; -- as for me, I am ready to break my heart when I think of being absent from you. O that it were in my power to quit this place directly! … Sweet Chesington! -- abominable Lynn! My dear Hetty, i shall write myself into the vapours and them give them to you -- so I will have done. But I must say how much I admire your plan of life…" Early Journals and Letters , I:6 and II: Appendix 3.
Autograph letter signed "Frances Burney" to her sister Esther "Hetty" Burney.
Lynn Regis: July 1770]. 1¼ pp., single tall sheet (380 x 230 mm). Bound in (though now detached from) half morocco binding. Condition : folds and creases, small chips and separations; binding with boards detached and other wear. Provenance : Frank Fletcher (bookplate on front pastedown). early burney letter regarding her sister's marriage . Esther Burney accepted the marriage proposal of Charles Rousseau Burney, her first cousin, in June 1770. At the time, however, Charles Burney was travelling in Europe conducting the research for his Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) and did not learn of the engagement until after the marriage. This letter largely concerns his absence and the spreading news of the engagement. Burney writes, in part: "…We are now in daily expectation of the important letter from papa -- and let me say one thing -- it seems to me not unlikely that immedately that papa receives the last pacquet, he will write to my uncle. I hope therefore that you have ere now acquainted him with your affairs, or else that you directly will, as it would be shocking for him to hear of it first from abrad, and as he would then perhaps always believe that you intended to seret it from him. how can it have got about, God knows, but every body here speaks of your marriage as a certain and speedy affair. So you will have it in town. I fear mama cannot go; -- as for me, I am ready to break my heart when I think of being absent from you. O that it were in my power to quit this place directly! … Sweet Chesington! -- abominable Lynn! My dear Hetty, i shall write myself into the vapours and them give them to you -- so I will have done. But I must say how much I admire your plan of life…" Early Journals and Letters , I:6 and II: Appendix 3.
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