Autograph letter signed "H Walpole" to Dr. [Charles] Burney at St. Martin's Street, Leicester Fields, London.
Strawberry Hill: 6 July 1786. 1 p. (195 x 160 mm). Condition : address panel attached to verso, remainder of red wax seal, postmarks, one edge renewed, one tear repaired, traces of mounting. Provenance Burney family descendants, sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1998, lot 75, £1,380 Walpole delights in Fanny Burney's appointment as second keeper of the Queen's robes, "You cannot imagine, dear Sr, how I rejoice for her sake & yours on the preferment of Miss Burney; which indeed is a very generous proceeding on my side, as I fear she will not now stoop from the stately brow of Windsor's heights to the expanse below, and condescend to visit the veteran of Strawberry hill , tho he were as well preserved as the Newspapers flatter him he is…," and expresses his suspicion that Mrs. Delany "has a little contributed to the success by her recommendation." Walpole, Correspondence , vol. XLII (Yale, 1980), pp. 170-1.
Autograph letter signed "H Walpole" to Dr. [Charles] Burney at St. Martin's Street, Leicester Fields, London.
Strawberry Hill: 6 July 1786. 1 p. (195 x 160 mm). Condition : address panel attached to verso, remainder of red wax seal, postmarks, one edge renewed, one tear repaired, traces of mounting. Provenance Burney family descendants, sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1998, lot 75, £1,380 Walpole delights in Fanny Burney's appointment as second keeper of the Queen's robes, "You cannot imagine, dear Sr, how I rejoice for her sake & yours on the preferment of Miss Burney; which indeed is a very generous proceeding on my side, as I fear she will not now stoop from the stately brow of Windsor's heights to the expanse below, and condescend to visit the veteran of Strawberry hill , tho he were as well preserved as the Newspapers flatter him he is…," and expresses his suspicion that Mrs. Delany "has a little contributed to the success by her recommendation." Walpole, Correspondence , vol. XLII (Yale, 1980), pp. 170-1.
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