BIB_ID
102754
Accession number
MA 161.1-28
Display Date
1734-1814
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 v. (28 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 38.6 cm
Notes
Some letters with postmarks or seals.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Collection consists of 19 autograph letters signed from David Garrick to recipients including John Stuart, Earl of Bute (MA 161.1), William Hogarth (MA 161.2), George Colman (MA 161.3), Peter Garrick (MA 161.4), Samuel Foote (MA 161.5), Hannah Pritchard (MA 161.7), Richard Cumberland (MA 161.8), Thomas Fitzmaurice (MA 161.9), Henry Bunbury (MA 161.10), John Home (MA 161.12), an unidentified recipient (MA 161.13), Elizabeth Montagu (MA 161.14), Elizabeth Younge Pope (MA 161.15), John Taylor (MA 161.16-17), and Charles Burney (MA 161.18-20); an autograph poem by David Garrick (MA 161.11); autograph letters signed to Garrick from Charles Pratt, Earl of Camden (MA 161.6), Thomas Linley (MA 161.21), Gilbert Walmesley (MA 161.22), and Sir John Fielding (MA 161.27); autograph letters signed from Eva Maria Garrick to Frances Cadogan (MA 161.23) and to "three dear and good friends" (MA 161.24); a document signed by Peter Garrick (MA 161.25); an autograph letter signed from Arabella Garrick to William Adair (MA 161.26); and an autograph letter signed from Georgiana, Duchesss of Devonshire, to Eva Maria Garrick (MA 161.28). Items in the collection are described in 28 individual records (MA 161.1-28).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (42 cm)
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