Autograph letter signed "Hor Walpole" to Fanny Burney.
Strawberry Hill: 3 November 1790. 2½ pp., folded sheet (203 x 165 mm). Condition : folds, lightly faded. Provenance : Burney family descendants, sale; Sotheby's London, 15 July 1998, lot 73, £1725. The letter addresses the legal difficulties presented by the will of Fanny Burney's deceased servant, Jacob Columb, and describes Walpole's efforts to resolve them: "…Now what I should propose is, that you, Madam, should offer Bayeaux's Attorney to pay the money in your hands to the two executors together, that is, half to one & half to the other, on each giving you a receipt before proper Witnesses; & I should also advise you not to write to the Attorney yrself, but get a Lawyer to write for you & be present when you pay the money…" Walpole assures Burney of his continued involvement in the matter, "…if Dr Burney could be so kind as to call on me here on this day or tomorrow night, I think we could save you, who have little, time and trouble…," and concludes that he is happy to help, being "not a despotic Democrate, but/ yr most sincere/ humble sevt/ HorWalpole." Walpole, Correspondence , vol. XLII (Yale, 1980), pp. 297-9.
Autograph letter signed "Hor Walpole" to Fanny Burney.
Strawberry Hill: 3 November 1790. 2½ pp., folded sheet (203 x 165 mm). Condition : folds, lightly faded. Provenance : Burney family descendants, sale; Sotheby's London, 15 July 1998, lot 73, £1725. The letter addresses the legal difficulties presented by the will of Fanny Burney's deceased servant, Jacob Columb, and describes Walpole's efforts to resolve them: "…Now what I should propose is, that you, Madam, should offer Bayeaux's Attorney to pay the money in your hands to the two executors together, that is, half to one & half to the other, on each giving you a receipt before proper Witnesses; & I should also advise you not to write to the Attorney yrself, but get a Lawyer to write for you & be present when you pay the money…" Walpole assures Burney of his continued involvement in the matter, "…if Dr Burney could be so kind as to call on me here on this day or tomorrow night, I think we could save you, who have little, time and trouble…," and concludes that he is happy to help, being "not a despotic Democrate, but/ yr most sincere/ humble sevt/ HorWalpole." Walpole, Correspondence , vol. XLII (Yale, 1980), pp. 297-9.
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