Autograph letter to Dr. [Charles] Burney at St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square, London.
Strawberry Hill: 6 September 1785. 1 p. (196 x 163 mm). Condition: address panel attached to verso, one edge renewed. Provenance: Burney family descendants, sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1998, lot 74, £1150. A brief letter in the third person describing Walpole's pleasure at Dr. Burney's coming to visit: "Mr Walpole is very happy that Dr Burney can oblige him with his company on thursday evening… If it is not too much to ask, Mr Walpole woud be exceedingly flattered if Dr Burney would bring Miss Burney with him…and if Dr Burney & Cecilia will grant him this favour, he shall think it as great an one as if Dorset's self had bless'd his roof." Walpole, Correspondence , vol. XLII (Yale, 1980), pp. 149-50.
Autograph letter to Dr. [Charles] Burney at St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square, London.
Strawberry Hill: 6 September 1785. 1 p. (196 x 163 mm). Condition: address panel attached to verso, one edge renewed. Provenance: Burney family descendants, sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1998, lot 74, £1150. A brief letter in the third person describing Walpole's pleasure at Dr. Burney's coming to visit: "Mr Walpole is very happy that Dr Burney can oblige him with his company on thursday evening… If it is not too much to ask, Mr Walpole woud be exceedingly flattered if Dr Burney would bring Miss Burney with him…and if Dr Burney & Cecilia will grant him this favour, he shall think it as great an one as if Dorset's self had bless'd his roof." Walpole, Correspondence , vol. XLII (Yale, 1980), pp. 149-50.
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