Title

Sarah Harriet Burney manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1824

Author

Burney, Sarah Harriet, 1772-1844.

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Additional Authors

Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856

Found In

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Description

2 items

Subjects

• Burney, Fanny, > 1752-1840 > Family
• Burney, Sarah Harriet, 1772-1844 > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Admission to the Pforzheimer Collection is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections.
• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Sarah Harriet Burney, British writer. She wrote several novels, including Clarentine (1796), Geraldine Fauconberg (1808), and Country Neighbours (1820), the heroine of which inspired a poem by Charles Lamb. She is the half-sister of Frances Burney, Madame D'Arblay the writer.

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

77744062

Author

Burney, Sarah Harriet, 1772-1844.

Title

Sarah Harriet Burney manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1824

Summary

· To Dr. John Ayrton Paris, physician and author : 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Mar [pre-1824] : (MISC 2013) : from 18 Grosvenor Street : begins, "Mrs. Gregor has informed me of her kindness in making so ill a report of my beautiful looks to you ..."; with descriptions of her physical condition, including, "I have had a severe feverish cold, & great internal discomfort from, I believe, indigestion; so I have starved & physicked myself into a fright of the first water ..." Tipped into the William Upcott autograph album, which was compiled in 1824. Shelved with bound manuscripts under "Upcott."

· To Mrs. Hichcliffe : 1 autograph letter signed (fragments) : [no date] : (MISC 3927b) : [no place] : 2 cliipped fragments; enclosing a clipping from a letter in the hand of her sister, Fanny Burney, as an autograph sample "for Miss Brown." Mounted in the Agatha Hogsbottom album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

Access

Admission to the Pforzheimer Collection is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Sarah Harriet Burney, British writer. She wrote several novels, including Clarentine (1796), Geraldine Fauconberg (1808), and Country Neighbours (1820), the heroine of which inspired a poem by Charles Lamb. She is the half-sister of Frances Burney, Madame D'Arblay the writer.

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Added Author

Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856, addressee.

Found In:

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Research Call Number

Pforz MS