BIB_ID
104328
Accession number
MA 9582
Creator
Kemble, Priscilla, 1758-1854.
Display Date
1782 January 18.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.6 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Housed with a separate autograph address panel to "R.B. Sheridan Esq."
Written in the third person.
"Maid of the Oaks" was a play written by General John Burgoyne. It was performed on Monday, January 21, 1782 at the Drury Lane Theatre with Mrs. Brereton listed in the cast as Maria. Priscilla (née Hopkins) Kemble married William Brereton in 1777, he died in 1787, and she married John Philip Kemble later that year.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Written in the third person.
"Maid of the Oaks" was a play written by General John Burgoyne. It was performed on Monday, January 21, 1782 at the Drury Lane Theatre with Mrs. Brereton listed in the cast as Maria. Priscilla (née Hopkins) Kemble married William Brereton in 1777, he died in 1787, and she married John Philip Kemble later that year.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Summary
Requesting that he order a new dress for her part in "The Maid of the Oaks;" saying ...the only dress there is that Mrs. B. can wear in the Maid of the Oaks is so dirty that if Mr. S.-n will look at it he will be convinced that it wou'd disgrace the piece Mrs. B. wou'd therefore be much obliged to him if he wou'd give some orders for a dress to be made to wear on Monday night.
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