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Anne Townshend Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 41
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1773

Fonds consists of one manuscript album of poetry, belonging to the Marchioness Townshend. Contains various genres of poetry in English, written between 1769 and 1771, including "comic poems on various occasions." Quarto manuscript written on laid paper in a neat scribal hand in brown ink throughout.

Townshend, Anne, Marchioness Townshend, 1754-1819

Christina Dorothea Juncken correspondence

This file contains letters from Christina Dorothea Juncken to her daughter, Christina Barbara Hall, sent between approximately 1770 and 1785. Contents of the letters is primarily personal news and news of the extended family, as well as prayers for their well-being. The letters are arranged in rough chronological order.

Christina Dorothea Rees correspondence, 1770-1800

  • CA RBD MSG 1299-2-04
  • File
  • 30 March 1770 - 2 December 1800
  • Part of Hall family fonds

This file contains correspondence from Christina Dorothea Rees (sometimes spelled Riess) to her sister Christina Barbara Hall. Letters chiefly concern family news, including information about the health of family members, and news of births and deaths. The letters are arranged in chronological order.

Letter attributed to Susanna Burney, 1770

Manuscript letter attributed to Susanna Burney. The letter comprises four unnumbered pages on one long sheet, folded vertically. The letter is not addressed to a particular recipient but instead begins: "Appendix to follow, April 19 1767. - Written this Year of our Lord 1770." Inscription "No. 4" is found on upper left corner and "21 [p?]" on upper right corner. Letter is written in brown ink on laid paper.

The letter describes her acquaintances in France from April 1767, including descriptions which she mentions as having been omitted from her journal for the year 1767.

Burney, Susanna, 1755-1800

Burney family manuscripts collection

  • CA RBD MS Burney
  • Collection
  • 1770-1904, bulk 1785-1839

The Burney family manuscript collection consists chiefly of material created by Fanny Burney (1752-1840), novel Evelina (1778) was a bestseller during her life time and is still in print, as well as by Burney family members and friends. The manuscript collection contains correspondence, letter fragments, and a journal kept by Fanny Burney (1812), and other materials by Burney herself, other members of her family, and members of their circle. The collection also includes significant correspondence for her father, the musician and musical historian Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Edward Jerningham Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 159
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1770

"Yarico to Inkle", with Marlay's" Prologue to the Begger's Opera" and Father Francis' "Prayer to Saint Agnes" comprise Jerningham's papers.

Jerningham, Edward, 1727-1812

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