Autograph letter to his son detailing his approval of and pleasure in Fanny Burney's novel Camilla. Burney judges it to contain "better writing & deeper thinking than in either of her former novels" and praises it as "the best & most impressive system of female education I have ever seen." Also discusses a variety of Classical topics and sends family news.
Description:
Accompanied by: typed description on the stationery of James F. Drake, Inc. and Binding: 20th century full yellow morocco, gilt-stamped; watered yellow silk endpapers; cloth slipcase.
Subject (Name):
Burney family., Burney, Charles,--1757-1817., and Burney, Fanny,--1752-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Women authors, English--18th century. and Women--Intellectual life.
Nine manuscript letters to Fanny Burney, dictated and signed by Mary Delany. Subjects include the health of the two women and of friends; plans for visits and holidays; the publication of Charles Burney's Musical Catalogue; and Burney's appointment as Second Keeper of the Queen's Robes
Description:
Mary Granville Delany (1700-1788) was an English Bluestocking, best-known today for her flower collages and other paper artworks. and In English.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of poems, including numerous occasional verses addressed to friends, family members, and their children. Titles include "Ode to the Ship, in which Mr. F J. H. Wollaston sails," "A Lilliputian Ode, on my little Friend, Richard Burney, putting on Breeches," "Buxom Het, an excellent new song to an old Tune: a Soldier & a Sailor, a Tinker & a Tailor, etc., made on Mrs. Esther Burney," and "Occasional Prologue to the Good Natured Man, a Comedy; when acted by Ladies and Gentlemen for their diversion."
Description:
Incomplete index in back of manuscript., Laid in: poem, in same hand, titled "To my little friend Charles Wollaston, on his being put into Breeches.", and Binding: boards, vellum spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817., Burney family., Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774., and Wollaston, Francis John Hyde, 1762-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Drama, English literature, English poetry, Occasional verse, and Social life and customs
