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Letter-image: First page of Susan Burney's account of the Gordon Riots
The principal holdings of Susan Burney's letters and letter-journals
are in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library (60%), the British
Library (24%), and the Osborn Collection at the Beinecke Rare Books Library
at Yale University (14%). Copies of 27 letters are at the Robinson Library,
Armagh. The following letter-image is from the British LIbrary.
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The text begins "Thursday Eveg. June 8th. Ah my dear Fanny!
- How frighten'd & how miserable would you have been ..."
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Detail showing foot of the page. The text reads " ... Mrs.
Bunbury &c were, we heard violent shouts & huzza's from
Leicester Fields - & William who went to see what was the matter
return’d to tell us the populace had broke in to Sir Geo: Saville’s
House were then emptying it of its furniture which ... (full
transcript)"
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