BURNEY Charles Parr - ALS 1825 seeking autographs for his wife's collection Category_Politics

BURNEY Charles Parr - ALS 1825 seeking autographs for his wife's collection Category_PoliticsCharles Parr BURNEY (1785 1864) Autograph Letter Signed (Charles Parr Burney) to John Nichols, requesting any cast off autographs to satisfy his wifes new enthusiasm for autograph collecting. 2 pages 4to with integral address leaf, Greenwich, 15 January 1825. I come before you as a Suitor, not for myself, indeed, but for my better part for my Lady. Within these last twelve months Mrs. Burney has taken to the fashionable pursuit of collecting

She was very kind and seemed to understand

If this was an attempt to flatter Shaw

& trusts his Lordship will pardon her troubling him with the enclosed letter

but also a heated debate in Paris

Lachner is today

but is entirely legible throughout

and there were several Seruriers in the ranks of the Legion of Honour

This is a pretty history for a husband to write – but who knows it so well

when there was much sea

2 pages of accounts written on either side of a large folio sheet

the letter which you sent me on 17 August recounting the festivities of the 15th by the first Corps of the army

The officers are decidedly mixed – socially – but some are very good sort & most of them wonderfully keen & efficient